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fraught

[frawt] / frɔt /


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Often, the debates are even more fraught than in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

The gaming community has developed a “very, very fraught relationship with AI, and it’s not getting better,” according to Togelius.

From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026

From the start, there were reasons to feel like Hamilton’s tenure was fraught.

From Slate • May 21, 2026

Barron’s: Thank you, everyone, for joining us at such a fraught and busy time.

From Barron's • May 15, 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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