Thesaurus results for FLASH POINT

flash point

noun

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

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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 on the Web Incidents of police use of force have been a flash point in the past — most notably in 2011, when the shooting of a Black man, Mark Duggan, in London sparked riots that were described as the United Kingdom’s worst civil unrest in a generation. —

Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 26 July 2024 Recommended The Monitor's View Joy breaks into the Olympics The Subi Reef, another flash point, sits even closer to Thitu. —

Lorela U. Sandoval, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 July 2024 The Games also fed into culture war flash points in the U.S. and abroad, including a conservative Christian backlash to a drag performance during the opening ceremony and a furor over the gender identity and competition eligibility of two female boxers. —

Alexander Smith, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2024 These changes have become flash points of community activism and debate, both in support of and in resistance to name revisions. —

Daniel Oto-Peralías, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for flash point

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