fractious
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But getting such a deal done can be hard and fractious among the thousands of alleged victims who have to decide if the settlement offers fair compensation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Instead, she fell into line, with some believing that if she had called for the PM to go it would have torn apart the fractious group Morgan leads in Cardiff Bay.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
Attorneys for the tech titans hit back, saying in opening statements Monday and Tuesday that Kaley’s troubled home life and her fractious relationship with her family were to blame for her suffering, not the platforms.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
Marseille scored in the opening minutes of each half to book a place in the quarter-finals of the French Cup with a scrappy, at times fractious, 3-0 victory over visiting Rennes on Tuesday.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
She then peeped round to where I sat; so stern a neighbour was too restrictive: to him, in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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