fraught
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Toossi doesn’t grapple explicitly with the fraught internal politics of the Iran of the period.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
Gilead’s position on access to lenacapavir comes at a fraught moment for the global fight against HIV.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
It would be hard to think of an artist with a more fraught origin story than Noguchi.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Magyar is partly cutting through the fraught media landscape using social media.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
But near her in rehearsals for a school play, with all the waiting around that implied, all the backstage intimacy, all the intense, fraught, giddy, emotional abandon brought on by assuming identities not your own.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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