Idiom
For the time being.
For the time being indicates that an action or state will continue into the future, but is temporary.
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(We can't verify any of these stats, and comparing over time is fraught with difficulty; but you get the idea).
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The time was fraught with my efforts to let my teens be teens, even as I seemed to be regressing into a shadowland of jitters.
We considered surveying the patients and/or key family members, but decided not to: we felt that surveying terminal patients and their families during such an emotional and difficult time was fraught with too many issues and would make both data collection and data interpretation difficult.
The times were fraught.
Sandra Bland's death is a reminder that routine encounters between police officers and black Americans have often times been fraught with tension, violence, and unexplained tragedy.
For Mr. Cuomo, who won overwhelmingly among black voters last week but whose relations with black elected officials have at times been fraught, the shift may bring headaches as well as opportunity.
In front of a crowd of more than 1 million people, Obama acknowledged in his inauguration speech that times were fraught, with the US fighting two wars and grappling with the worst economic crisis since the 1930s.
And these times are fraught with uncertainty!
The desire to consume a botanical time capsule is fraught; every precious sip both supports a traditional craft and hastens its extinction.
The question recurs throughout the first section of the book, and every time it is fraught — as quotidian exchanges so often are — with claims to knowledge, assertions of authority, bids for love.
As with many issues, the travel time controversy is fraught with conflicting legal interpretations.
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