fraught
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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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