fraught

[Jonathan Lighter]

I can't find it in the Archives.  Short for "fraught with difficulties or
complications." Here's an ex. from a learned colleague:

2009 Brian Boyd _On the Origin of Stories_ (Cambridge: Belknap) 56: If
cooperation is is fairly easy to establish, yet already fraught, among close
kin, how can it extend even among non-kin?

No earlier instance of "fraught" in the book.  My impression is that it's
becoming a bit faddish in the media.

JL

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