Sentence examples for tenuous theory from inspiring English sources

The phrase "tenuous theory" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a theory that is weak, fragile, or lacking in solid evidence.
Example: "The scientist presented a tenuous theory about the origins of the universe, which lacked substantial support from empirical data."
Alternatives: "weak theory" or "fragile theory"

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The sixth construction layer is thought to have been destroyed by an earthquake, rather than the Greeks – although one tenuous theory suggests that the legendary Trojan horse was an allegory for the god Poseidon, whose animal was a horse.

At the oldest cantinas in the heart of Mexico City -- El Nivel, El Gallo de Oro and La Opera, gilded jewels of the 1870's -- a tenuous theory emerged among the oldest and wisest of the bartenders, who chronicle the passage of powermongers and philosophers like sportswriters covering palookas.

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Disallowing evidence obtained through coercion would result in the evisceration of many of the cases that might otherwise, on the most tenuous of theories, have been prosecuted.

Schwartz argues in his article for the American magazine The Weekly Standard that the suicide theory is tenuous.

However, evidence for this theory is tenuous and the current dogma maintains that repeat elements need to be silenced and selected against because they have adverse effects.

They say the results lend tenuous support to a highly controversial theory that Earth is cloudier, and therefore reflects more sunlight, when the Sun is near the minimum of its 11-year activity cycle and has the fewest sunspots and solar storms.

Cassandra is hesitant to weave an entire theory from a couple of tenuous strands of thought but predictions made by a some panellists at the World in 2012 Festival in New York on Saturday felt like the stirrings of an interesting, if quiet, movement.

The theory, to my untutored ears, sounds tenuous, and for once Morris doesn't express it very fluently - he seems embarrassed to be relying on someone else's thinking.

Thus conventional notions of the close relationship between theory and experiment have but a tenuous foothold, at best, in quantum gravity.

The comic book's illustrator Brian Blomerth claims that the content isn't hyperbolic; supposedly Dr. Ispib Osnotkitchi is in fact an expert researcher on 'alternative nicotine intake theory,' although the actual evidence is... tenuous, to say the least.

"It varies as you go from politicians like Louie Gohmert, who accepts conspiracy theories as real and at best has a tenuous grasp on reality, to Governor Abbott, who is a shrewd politician and understands the utility of conspiracy theories and the sway they hold with far-right voters in Texas," he said.

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