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Recent Examples of fraught Some fear that the fraught tensions could quickly spiral into more unrest and violence. Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 12 Sep. 2025 Johnson Hartig, the brand's CEO and Creative Director, whose whimsical graphics, collage-effect embellishments, and historical references are core to the brand ethos, also met the moment in today's fraught political and cultural environment with his show. Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 Because of its associations with the church, this music was ideologically fraught in an anti-religious Soviet Estonia. Jeffers Engelhardt, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025 Magrath's own role in the case was fraught. Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fraught
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fraught
Adjective
  • At first glance, Nam-Joon Cho’s lab at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University looks like your typical research facility—scientists toiling away, crowded workbenches, a hum of machinery in the background.
    Sandy Ong, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The company has been around for over four decades, and other big-name tech companies, such as IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon, have made the cloud services market more crowded than ever.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Handing spending power to a piece of software makes people uneasy.
    Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • An uneasy calm, after two nights of chaos that saw tens of thousands of people pour out into the streets to vent their fury, setting fire to parliament and the Supreme Court – key symbols of state – and clashing with the government forces sent to keep them under control.
    Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Streamline applications with pre-filled forms, especially to support internal mobility where workloads are high or digital access is limited.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The exchange grew more tense when Brzezinski raised concerns about ICE vehicles parked outside a Spanish-language Mass in Boston, saying such actions spread fear in immigrant communities.
    Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The arrests also raised alarm in Seoul, further complicating tense US-South Korea relations over investments agreed to in their trade deal, the Financial Times reported.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Between flights, unpredictable weather, and a packed itinerary, vacations can come with a lot of variables.
    Rachel Trujillo, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The outcome always felt in the balance, and Townsend was playing with unmatched attention on her, in a packed Louis Armstrong Stadium, on Labor Day weekend.
    The Athletic Tennis Staff, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Fortunately, there are straightforward ways to reduce your chances of being confronted with violent or disturbing videos.
    Annie Margaret, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Celebrating the assassination of a 31 year old father of two young kids is disturbing; that teachers would be among those who do so is completely unacceptable.
    Amy DeLaura, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Milena was not, and antisemitism was rife in Europe even before the rise of National Socialism.
    Christine Estima September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Antisemitism is rife right across the UK.
    Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This may be subtle but often unsettling in nature.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • For a story that could be this dark, what a gift to be able to recount some of these things, but with a tone that doesn’t need to be wildly investigative and uncomfortable and unsettling.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Fraught.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fraught. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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