fraught with
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: 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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The Fence suffers from dialogue overload and a somewhat stagy mise-en-scène, although those elements occasionally yield strong sequences fraught with unsettledness, if not outright hostility, when the drama finally boils over.
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
The years and months leading up to the unthinkable mass shooting appear fraught with chaos in the shooter's personal life.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Yet for most enterprises, the path from AI ambition to execution remains fraught with complexity.
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Regrettably, implementation was fraught with challenges and setbacks, most notably affecting Intel.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
The years and months leading up to the unthinkable mass shooting appear fraught with chaos in the shooter's personal life.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Yet for most enterprises, the path from AI ambition to execution remains fraught with complexity.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Regrettably, implementation was fraught with challenges and setbacks, most notably affecting Intel.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Fraught with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fraught%20with. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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