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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But for too many students, the simple act of boarding or exiting the bus has become fraught with danger, trauma, and tragedy.
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Buspatrol - A Mission-Driven Organization, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
The music industry – any field in entertainment, actually – can be fraught with exciting parties, events, and the spoils that come with hitting it big, but all of these things have spelled the downfall for too many talented artists.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The strikes marked a major escalation of Israel’s war against Hamas and introduced a new level of volatility in a region fraught with conflict.
—Colin Meyn, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
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.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
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Buspatrol - A Mission-Driven Organization, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
The music industry – any field in entertainment, actually – can be fraught with exciting parties, events, and the spoils that come with hitting it big, but all of these things have spelled the downfall for too many talented artists.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The strikes marked a major escalation of Israel’s war against Hamas and introduced a new level of volatility in a region fraught with conflict.
—Colin Meyn, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
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.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Fraught with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fraught%20with. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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