Thesaurus results for FLASH POINT

flash point

noun

as in volcano

a potentially explosive place or situation that troubled region remains one of the world's most dangerous flash points

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as in crisis

a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action tensions between the two longtime adversaries were at a flash point

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Recent Examples of flash point That flash point foretells an America becoming more polarized the hotter things get, more sharply divided between its rural and urban communities and more hateful and more dangerous. —

Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024 Roughly a century ago, the trial of John T. Scopes marked a flash point in an American culture war—between religious faith and science—that has been waged, in one form or another, to this day. —

John Kaag, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2024 Certification of local results is a key target in this effort, a once-mundane administrative step that has become a flash point in the debate over election security — and a potential opportunity to subvert the will of voters. —

Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, 26 June 2024 The Kapadia incident was the latest flash point between Grierson and the Jewish community. —

Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for flash point

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On the slopes of the Haleakalā volcano in the Kīpahulu Forest Reserve, Hawaiian crows, known as ʻalalā, are flying free.

Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024
The last time a tsunami warning was issued for the Bay Area was in January 2022, after the eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano, said Dalton Behringer with the weather service.

Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024