as in time bomb
a potentially explosive place or situation
after months of tension the roommates' living situation was a volcano
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Recent Examples of volcano
The most disruptive in recent times was the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which spewed clouds of ash into the atmosphere and disrupted trans-Atlantic air travel for months.
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Reuters, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
Longtime draws such as the active volcano Mount Soufrière, with its stunning views, and idyllic Salt Whistle Bay, where kitesurfing is the thing, remain central to the destination’s appeal.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
Charrière, who was born in Morges, Switzerland, in 1987, is known for a practice encompassing film, photography, and sculpture, and exploring such remote ecological locations as volcanoes, glaciers, and radioactive sites.
—News Desk, Artforum, 31 Oct. 2024
There are fresh reasons to go, including a burgeoning wine scene that benefits from wide swaths of fertile ground around the Popocatépetl volcano, some 40 miles west of the city limits.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Reuters, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
Longtime draws such as the active volcano Mount Soufrière, with its stunning views, and idyllic Salt Whistle Bay, where kitesurfing is the thing, remain central to the destination’s appeal.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
Charrière, who was born in Morges, Switzerland, in 1987, is known for a practice encompassing film, photography, and sculpture, and exploring such remote ecological locations as volcanoes, glaciers, and radioactive sites.
—News Desk, Artforum, 31 Oct. 2024
There are fresh reasons to go, including a burgeoning wine scene that benefits from wide swaths of fertile ground around the Popocatépetl volcano, some 40 miles west of the city limits.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for volcano
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Athena’s husband’s problems are a little less of a ticking time bomb, but equally contrived.Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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Europe’s demographic challenges are becoming a ticking time bomb for the region’s economy, with Morgan Stanley delivering a grim prediction for its effects on GDP.Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 14 Oct. 2024
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Although much of it was filmed in Ontario, the series has a good sense of Philadelphia as a stratified powder keg of a city.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile, Josh is feeling the pressure after being benched due to legislative blunders, and the whole thing feels like a powder keg.Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024
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Many flash points remain along the border and could be reactivated at any time by Xi’s aggressive regime.Harsh V. Pant, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2024
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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
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“Volcano.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/volcano. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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