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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a fraught activity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an activity that is filled with emotional tension, anxiety, or difficulty.
Example: "Planning the event turned out to be a fraught activity, as there were numerous unexpected challenges along the way."
Alternatives: "a stressful endeavor" or "a challenging task".
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It should be the simplest thing in the world for us to do: to take all our clothes off to soak up the sun or skinny dip, and yet it is such a fraught activity for so many people.
Janet Malcolm once wrote, "Writing is a fraught activity for everyone, of course, male or female, but women writers seem to have to take stronger measures, make more peculiar psychic arrangements, than men do to activate their imaginations".* She might have especially been channelling Jane Bowles.
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But assessing exactly how bad it is — how angry or loyal people feel, how effective or cruel the closure has been, how truly impoverished Gaza has become — is a delicate and politically fraught activity as three recent days of reporting here and dozens of interviews showed.
Having read Proust, and also neuroscientists on the direct connection from smell and taste receptors to the hippocampus, I have long been aware that eating is, for many people, an emotionally and mnemonically fraught activity.
For most of us, cooking is a necessary, often pleasurable, sometimes fraught activity; it is nearly always rushed.
Art and sex are both morally fraught activities for Yuknavitch.
It was a fraught move, he knew.
The question is a fraught one.
Theirs was a fraught friendship and collaboration.
This is a fraught and delicate undertaking.
But victimhood is a fraught subject.
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