fraught

Example Sentences

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Magyar is partly cutting through the fraught media landscape using social media.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 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

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

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

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros