fraught

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With a new management team in place, Steve Russell now leads a trust fraught with problems - most significantly around breast cancer care.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

For now, it seems tensions remain fraught between the U.S. and Iran.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Even knowing they must cooperate with the very people they’re competing against, as alliances form and fracture, each day grows more fraught.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

But the mere fact that McLean is Team USA’s best option in a contest with such high stakes shows just how fraught the relationship still is between MLB organizations and the WBC.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

“We cannot take the same attitude now because the success which we have achieved in the development of nuclear power is fraught with infinitely greater dangers than were all the inventions of the past.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik