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  • The FluMist is specifically made up of what's called a live but a tenuated virus, whereas the flu shot is an inactivated virus.

    CNN Transcript May 17, 2007 2007

  • It was hard to realise that up and down had returned once more, harder still to connect their reappearance with that distant, at - tenuated thunder that had broken in upon the silence of the ship.

    The Sands of Mars Clarke, Arthur C. 1951

  • \227She ex) -10.7 (tenuated Miss Moreton\222s condu) -10.7 (ct as much as she)] TJ

    The Corinna of England, and a Heroine in the Shade: a Modern Romance Anonymous 1809

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