fraught

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Michael Sheehan wrote:
>
> Heard on CNN this afternoon around 12:50: "The issue of being Vegan or
> not is very fraught." I'm aware that there's been a shift away from
> "fraught with," but this use seems odd to me.

For more discussion, see my On Language reader response:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/magazine/23FOB-onlanguage-t.html

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