fraught

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But Lucian Cook, head of residential research at estate agents Savills, says implementing an alternative tax system would be fraught with difficulties - both practical and political.

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2026

Such tumult gives us a chance to consider how our nation has faced—and survived—more fraught times than our own.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 3, 2026

While formal discussions have begun with Mexico, which has a larger amount of issues on the table including security and immigration, relations with Canada remain fraught.

From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026

But for most people in most of the world, as I’ve written previously, it’s time to move on from eight tormented decades of an increasingly fraught love-hate relationship with America.

From Salon • Jun. 21, 2026

I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green