fraught

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Such an operation would be extremely challenging and fraught with danger, according to military experts and former US defence officials who spoke to the BBC.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Monday’s appearance came as Powell navigates one of the more legally fraught endings to a Fed chair’s tenure in modern history.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 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

His love for his new fiancée—he only recently ended his fraught marriage to the actress Patricia Neal, having begun his liaison with Liccy well before its dissolution—comes through in moments of quick, quiet intimacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Edwin Stanton did not live long after the death of Abraham Lincoln, and those years he did live were fraught with controversy.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly