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How to pronounce fraught in English?

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Synonyms pregnant


words fraught with meaning.
an incident fraught with danger.
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a fraught mother-daughter relationship.

Examples of fraught

fraught
This subject can sometimes be fraught with the potential for perceived coercion.
From the stltoday.com
Any decision to attack China's ICBM force, though, would be fraught with danger.
From the theatlantic.com
Let's even put aside a politically fraught cap-and-trade program for the moment.
From the time.com
By any standard, it is a massive three-month agenda fraught with political risk.
From the time.com
The question of Higgins's responsibility to his new creation is equally fraught.
From the bloomberg.com
Learning to speaking English is a concept that is itself fraught with ambiguity.
From the economist.com
Europe has long stood aside from Russia's fraught gas relationship with Ukraine.
From the economist.com
Money can be such a loaded topic, fraught with baggage from your own upbringing.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
However, break clauses can be fraught with problems for the unsuspecting tenant.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
More examples
  • Marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter relationship"
  • Fraught(p): filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense"
  • The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo; Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight; The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat; A ship's cargo, lading or freight; A load; a burden; Two bucketfuls (of water); To load (a ship, cargo etc. ...
  • Filled with; (of a ship) fully laden.