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 relations between Cuba and the United States have been fraught for centuries.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Speaking words I couldn’t understand, Russian or the like, incoherent and fraught with panic.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros