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fray

verb as in shred, come apart

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The fraying geopolitical relationship between the U.S. and China also hasn’t helped, nor has the increasing trend of younger audiences watching short-form content on their phones.

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Wallen’s music is commercial and polished; Bryan’s is stripped down and frayed.

The skinny look to the scoreboard - a 27-23 victory - matched with frayed nerves and chewed fingernails.

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Soon the fraying American regiments were being hounded south by west through New Jersey, and by Christmas Day King George’s troops had driven them across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.

New threats, such as extreme weather, tariffs, economic warfare, disruptive technological leaps, and the fraying of the postwar order, can defeat traditional forecasting models trained on historical data.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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