fraught

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Wildfire risk has complicated the state’s fraught housing debate, often shaped by pro-development “yes in my backyard” advocates and local “not in my backyard” groups that don’t want to see their own neighborhoods radically transformed.

From Los Angeles Times

Eventually, we learn to look past Jarmusch’s deceptively mundane surfaces to see the fraught, unresolved issues within these guarded families.

From Los Angeles Times

County’s local preschools are closing in areas where transitional kindergarten is thriving, disrupting an already fraught child-care system.

From Los Angeles Times

Those who choose to surrender face a return fraught with suspicion and shame.

From The Wall Street Journal

Although the schooling has long since continued, the healing has been fraught.

From Los Angeles Times