fraught
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But for most people in most of the world, as I’ve written previously, it’s time to move on from eight tormented decades of an increasingly fraught love-hate relationship with America.
From Salon • Jun. 21, 2026
Because of this, calling the police can have fraught outcomes—and often, it’s not even a real option.
From Slate • Jun. 15, 2026
Ferdowsi, 31, said it was fitting for a cafe that serves modern Persian cuisine to gather the community during such a fraught time.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2026
Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been fraught since the Taliban authorities took power in Kabul for a second time in 2021.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
But near her in rehearsals for a school play, with all the waiting around that implied, all the backstage intimacy, all the intense, fraught, giddy, emotional abandon brought on by assuming identities not your own.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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