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as in crowded
possessing or covered with great numbers or amounts of something specified
every room in my childhood home is fraught with memories
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as in uneasy
marked by or causing agitation or uncomfortable feelings
had a fraught meeting with his estranged wife to discuss a divorce settlement
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Recent Examples of fraught
Without such approval, Yoon would have to be released within 48 hours, adding urgency to the already fraught legal and political standoff.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Writing felt fraught, risky even, like touching a hot stove.
—Ariela Gittlen, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
In these conditions, landscape restoration and conservation initiatives become ethically and politically fraught, and questions around how the land should be managed are complex.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
The legal battle also brings attention to the fraught relationship between state and county election officials in Arizona.
—Shamim Chowdhury, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Writing felt fraught, risky even, like touching a hot stove.
—Ariela Gittlen, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
In these conditions, landscape restoration and conservation initiatives become ethically and politically fraught, and questions around how the land should be managed are complex.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
The legal battle also brings attention to the fraught relationship between state and county election officials in Arizona.
—Shamim Chowdhury, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fraught
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Shot in Delhi during the post-COVID period, the production faced logistical challenges, particularly while filming in crowded railway stations.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
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Profile: Dilly Dally was a stray who was taken to a crowded shelter in Imperial Valley and was then transferred to Rancho Coastal Humane Society through Friends of County Animal Shelters.Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
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Congress passed the law that would force a sale in April with bipartisan support as lawmakers from both parties have been uneasy over the app’s ties to China.Nik Popli, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
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The addition of such real-life clips—including that of the anchor Jim McKay—gives September 5 a documentary-like feel, cleverly immersing viewers into the uneasy headspace of those inside the studio.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2025
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The week’s biggest stories (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) A flare-up of the Palisades fire forced more evacuations as L.A. reels from staggering losses Los Angeles faced another tense night as the Palisades fire moved northeast, prompting new mandatory evacuations.Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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The Palestinian Authority is engaged in a tense standoff with a coalition of militants based in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2025
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Once installed, this setup will allow the team to create dynamic and immersive backdrops for their videos, from replicating the energy of a packed stadium to transporting viewers to breathtaking natural landscapes regularly seen in their Bucket List series.Jon Youshaei, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Playing well in front of a friendly, packed crowd shouldn’t be.Lindsay Schnell, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
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While the Eagles triumphed 22-10, advancing to the NFC Divisional Round, the victory was overshadowed by the disturbing exchange in the stands.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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The disturbing new figures are inching close to the same number of people — 1.5 million— who were internally displaced by Haiti’s cataclysmic earthquake, which struck 15 years ago on Jan. 12, 2010.Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
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Speculation over Lopetegui’s future had been rife since November.Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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The city’s traffic is snarled, as few police officers are on patrol, and double parking is rife, residents said.Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
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The unsettling echo of the book’s title struck me and many others.Jay Feinman, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
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Ben Stiller directs six of those entries (notably, the first and final three) with an unsettling symmetry; balancing and unbalancing compositions in order to undercut the inherent comforts of routine and uniformity.Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 3 Jan. 2025
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Beyond those under mandatory evacuation, many more, including many families and anxious pet owners, have left because of poor air quality or general wariness of the county’s precarious state.Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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Interview Crush on the Cross: An Interview with Anthony Oliveira Jason Kirk The author of Dayspring discusses queerness, Christianity, and the anxious sense that history is over.Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Fraught.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fraught. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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