fraught with
idiom
: full of (something bad or unwanted)
The situation was fraught with danger.
The paper was poorly researched and fraught with errors.
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Recovering from a motorcycle accident is often fraught with physical and emotional challenges.
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Kyle Russell, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2024
This is loud and turbulent and fraught with unending drama and unceasing peril.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
The road from startup to scale-up was fraught with risk, but the rewards were potentially astronomical.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 4 June 2024
Despite a mandate from Congress for the NIH to identify treatments for long Covid, clinical trials run by RECOVER — particularly a pair of trials aimed to address exercise and exertion — have moved slowly and been fraught with criticism.
—Betsy Ladyzhets, STAT, 31 May 2024
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Kyle Russell, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2024
This is loud and turbulent and fraught with unending drama and unceasing peril.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
The road from startup to scale-up was fraught with risk, but the rewards were potentially astronomical.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 4 June 2024
Despite a mandate from Congress for the NIH to identify treatments for long Covid, clinical trials run by RECOVER — particularly a pair of trials aimed to address exercise and exertion — have moved slowly and been fraught with criticism.
—Betsy Ladyzhets, STAT, 31 May 2024
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“Fraught with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fraught%20with. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
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