time bomb

as in volcano
a potentially explosive place or situation the region's political instability has turned it into a ticking time bomb

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Recent Examples on the Web Amid all the Niners’ terrible special teams play, this is a ticking time bomb. Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2024 Rancho Palos Verdes, a coastal community in the Los Angeles area, could be described as a geological ticking time bomb. Denise Chow, NBC News, 4 Sep. 2024 California ‘Tectonic time bomb:’ Mapping where massive California earthquakes cause the most shaking, destruction Dec. 17, 2019 Certainly, there have been a few earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater in the last three decades that brought damage to California. Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024 The Juba government sits precariously on an economic time bomb, which will explode in slow motion over the remainder of this year. Andrew Natsios, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2015 See all Example Sentences for time bomb 

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“Time bomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/time%20bomb. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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