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Within a few years, however, some of those positions proved a liability for Democrats when trying to win over persuadable voters and keep their coalition from fraying.

It was the kind of exposure that could help keep the team from fraying if one side of the ball vastly outplays the other.

Whispers about the potential fraying of their working relationship began earlier this week as press for "It Ends With Us" ramped up ahead of the movie's release on Friday.

If you follow the news, you know that tensions between the United States and China are high and that the commercial relationship between the two biggest trading nations on the planet has been fraying.

But the consensus around that policy is fraying.