It's satisfying to be able to use these fraught episodes for something worthwhile.
This stand-alone use of "fraught" to mean "tense" or "uneasy," while acceptable, is becoming so common as to risk seeming shopworn.
Leaving aside the fact that in the real world, after a lifetime of buckets, there's a fair chance Andy would be missing a foot, what's even more jarring is that KFC would actually try to use the fraught process of foster care to make even more money.
Although effective, warfarin use is fraught with multiple concerns, such as a narrow therapeutic window, drug drug and drug food interactions, and excessive bleeding.
Attempting to discern long-term consequences of adolescent AOD use is fraught with conceptual and methodological complexities (e.g., Schulenberg et al. 2003), yet it is critical for understanding the development (i.e., etiology) of adult alcohol use disorders.
Agitation for political reform has, in the past four or five years, grown more assertive, while taking on more varied and artful forms: instead of using the fraught term ren quan ("human rights"), for example, people talk about fa zhi ("the rule of law") and wei quan ("defending civil rights") to discuss consumer rights or migrant-labor rights or private-property rights.
Using the fraught emotions of panic and fear, the death of friends and loved ones, for YouTube numbers and retweets.
According to the report issued by the Department of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Lerner had to correct the criteria developed by the Cincinnati office twice because she and other top IRS officials found that they were using politically fraught terms as they sought to make sure groups were properly applying for tax exemption.
Land ownership is often opaque, and re-zoning from agricultural to industrial use has been fraught with peril and delays.
