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The fact is that recessions mostly do not happen after the economy has slowed, which the jobs and sales and, more tenuously, GDP data suggest is the case.

My Favorite Economic Indicator, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Now, Walnut Ridge is trying to cash in on the biggest thing ever to hit the town of 4,925—a fleeting stopover by the lads from Liverpool that connects it, however tenuously, to musical history.

Beatles Said a Fast Hello, Goodbye but a Tiny Town Won't Let It Be Miguel Bustillo 2011

This would appear to support my point, if admittedly tenuously.

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

Here's where we're asked to do the hardest part of our jobs: Sift through little bits of information (some that, by their very nature, are only tenuously palpable or dubiously reliable), collate them into categories, and formulate a list of potential causes we can tentatively file under "possibly."

Everyone makes mistakes, but veterinarians' can cost your pet's life 2010

She had a story, however tenuously sourced or incomplete, that no one else in the media had.

O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

When we left Greg and the gang, House and Cuddy were back on course, however tenuously.

Tonight's TV Hot List: Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 2011

Miss Pettigrew herself is blushingly drawn to the gallant Joe, a successful designer who is tenuously engaged to haughty fashion maven Edythe – the one person who senses that the new “social secretary” may be out of her element, and schemes to undermine her.

Flixnjoystix.com! » Bobert Spends A DAY With MISS PETTIGREW! This ’30s Screwball RomCom And DVD Are Worth Living For! 2009

As I sat in a small blue tent that evening tenuously perched over one particularly malodorous barrel, a loud rockslide thundered directly towards me.

Scott's Excellent Adventure - NASA Watch 2009

(Via Hot Air) You know, when Heinz ketchup became (bizarrely enough) a minor issue during the 2004 campaign I sneered wholeheartedly at the idea of switching brands just because the stuff was tenuously maybe-linked to the Democrats.

You may need to stockpile Heinz ketchup. | RedState 2010

The Anbar Awakening brought formerly excluded Sunni leadership into the governance process, distanced the Sunni population from al-Qaeda and other extremist groups, and delivered an extremely significant reduction in violence that, tenuously, still holds (please see Mark Perry's book, Talking to Terrorists, to understand how obstinacy and a commitment to rhetoric at senior levels in the US government delayed this process for two years, a delay that cost thousands of lives).

Matthew Hoh: Cautious Optimism for Talks in Afghanistan Matthew Hoh 2010