fractious

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Bruce Meyer, the current executive director of the players association, puts the union’s fractious history with the owners at the center of his communications with players.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

If it sounds polarised, ill-tempered and fractious, that is because it is.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

SEOUL—After a six-year hiatus, the first passenger trains connecting the capitals of China and North Korea resumed, a sign of warming ties between two countries that have a history of fractious relations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

He had a fractious relationship with New Delhi -- after taking office in 2024, he chose China for his first trip abroad, rather than the customary visit to India.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

She then peeped round to where I sat; so stern a neighbour was too restrictive: to him, in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë