The Merriam-Webster word of the day for June 15 is tenuous as in "You and me and eight others makes tenuous"
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Lean into the history of tenuous and you’ll find that the word comes to English from the Latin adjective tenuis, meaning “fine-drawn, thin, narrow, or slight,” and is a relative of thin. Like that
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