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
Other local highlights include exploring the small main village and taking a nighttime boat ride to see the glowing volcano.
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Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2026
The tectonic architecture of the Aegean Sea is messy, rife with crisscrossing faults and myriad volcanoes that make unraveling what happens at depth extremely difficult.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026
His brothers, Barry Voight, a geologist who invented a formula to predict when a volcano will erupt, and Jon were born in 1937 and 1938, respectively.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
The valley had been shaped across tens of millions of years, by volcanoes, floods, earthquakes.
—Nick Miroff, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2026
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Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2026
The tectonic architecture of the Aegean Sea is messy, rife with crisscrossing faults and myriad volcanoes that make unraveling what happens at depth extremely difficult.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026
His brothers, Barry Voight, a geologist who invented a formula to predict when a volcano will erupt, and Jon were born in 1937 and 1938, respectively.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
The valley had been shaped across tens of millions of years, by volcanoes, floods, earthquakes.
—Nick Miroff, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for volcano
Noun
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Of course, their amity turned out to be a time bomb.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Apr. 2026
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And every so often, the virus plants a ticking time bomb in the nervous system.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Lane takes his place among the best, his Willy Loman a powder keg of frustration and disappointment and deep, deep sadness.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2026
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Of course, the wedding turns into a powder keg of secrets, and the orderly proceedings blow up in the protagonists’ faces and leave a trail of emotional and physical pain.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2026
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The Salvadoran national’s case has become a flash point in immigration debates after he was mistakenly deported last year and forcibly brought back.—
Travis Loller,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Lebanon becomes the flash point The single biggest point of contention, and now the most violent, is Lebanon.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Volcano.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/volcano. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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