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  • adverb In a tenable manner.

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tenable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • If we live in a tenably loving universe, and it had been created by some Godly Intelligence -- what other definable source created what so obviously and vividly has been a complicated and intelligent creation?

    Navigating Through the Invisibility of the Stricken 2008

  • In any case, it can be tenably argued that the operational mechanics behind The Great Leveling are likely to exceed their physical universe blueprints.

    Greed Revisited 2008

  • There is a point behind this searing melodrama that warrants participation -- an admittedly brazenly-stated conviction whose roots support a non-random world view, as has been consistently (and tenably, tenably, tenably) promoted here.

    The Great Leveling, Phase 1 2008

  • Not just because of what Guard had said, nor even because of his laughter, but because, unbelievably, un - wantedly and un tenably she had just had the most appallingly clear mental image of Guard's naked body -- a body which, in that brief, illuminatory vision, had been both arrogantly male and erotically aroused.

    Unwanted Wedding Jordan, Penny 1995

  • His films stopped being tenably very fucked up inside and sexually confused, and without that, I'm just not as personally interested, I guess.

    DC's 2008

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