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

But the mere fact that McLean is Team USA’s best option in a contest with such high stakes shows just how fraught the relationship still is between MLB organizations and the WBC.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

When none came, she sighed a sigh so fraught with disappointment that it sounded as if her heart were breaking.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord