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Example sentences for: fractious

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Asakusa is the heart of Shitamachi, the quarter best-beloved of that fractious, gossipy, prodigal population called the Edokko, who trace their “downtown” roots back at least three generations.
By the 11th century, the caliphate had splintered into a mosaic of fractious states — 26 at one point, and the Balearics became an independent emirate.
One U.S. diplomat later told us that the exile groups were not ready to move forward and that coordinating fractious groups residing in Bonn, Rome, and Cyprus proved extremely difficult.
So how and why did two families of scale insects tame and domesticate their potentially fractious polar bodies, rather than killing them like normal animals do?
The editorial described India as "an overpopulated country with a fractious, hungry population, an unstable government, and age-old hatred with its neighbours" and said "the world has good reason to be nervous" about that country's new nuclear capabilities.