fraught
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No issue facing Southeast Asia's foreign ministers has been more fraught than how to reintegrate Myanmar, a member state formally excluded from such summits since its military junta seized power in 2021.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
It's a fixture fraught with passion and rivalry - falling 40 years after Diego Maradona almost single-handedly dumped England out in the quarter-final stage in Mexico.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Such tumult gives us a chance to consider how our nation has faced—and survived—more fraught times than our own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
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
Katz was liberally covered in blood from his fraught stumble through the woods, and there was tiredness all over us, even in our eyes.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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