flash point

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Recent Examples of flash point While the impact of a costlier iPhone likely wouldn't mean much from a larger economic perspective, the saber-rattling underscores the volatility of trade policy and provides another flash point for a market already unnerved by worries about fiscal policy that have sent bond yields sharply higher. Jeff Cox, CNBC, 23 May 2025 It’s been a flash point for racial profiling, particularly against Black men. Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 3 Apr. 2025 Maine has become a flash point after the state vowed noncompliance with Trump’s executive order barring their participation in girls sports. Ella Lee, The Hill, 19 Mar. 2025 In short, this is a serious flash point for any organization. Usman Javaid, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for flash point
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Noun
  • The team analyzed 130 rock samples from volcanoes in the Afar region.
    Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 7 July 2025
  • Geologists recorded an avalanche of searing gas clouds mixed with rocks and lava traveling up to 3 miles down the volcano's slopes during the eruption.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Stablecoins have, historically, flourished where there is economic instability and global crisis may further support the cross-border reliance on the stability of the U.S. currency.
    Priya Prakash Royal Esq. LL.M. MBA AEP TEP, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • After signing it Monday evening, Newsom heralded it as a solution to the state’s affordability crisis, which reached a fever pitch last year and peaked when a series of wildfires devastated Los Angeles in January, burning thousands of homes.
    Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Le Carré is not writing of ticking time bombs or plots to overthrow democracy, but of minor skirmishes behind the lines.
    Rav Grewal-Kök June 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
  • There is a ticking time bomb hanging over the economy this year, because Trump’s first-term tax cuts are going to expire at year-end.
    Kelly Evans, CNBC, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Tensions between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres reached a boiling point during the top of the ninth inning of the Padres' 5-3 win at Dodger Stadium on Thursday.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2025
  • These frustrations reached a boiling point last week.
    Henry Gass, Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Now, Maineri heads into year 12 with 18 pitchers on his roster, hoping that rising junior Caleb Gilbert and sophomore-to-be Zach Hess will emerge at the top of the pitching rotation.
    John Roach, NOLA.com, 19 July 2017
  • There's always one shot that leaves a golfer shaking his or her head.
    Mike Hutton, Post-Tribune, 19 July 2017
Noun
  • If the Trump administration continues to create a sense of uncertainty about the U.S. security guarantee to South Korea, for example, leaders in Seoul could reach a breaking point.
    FLORENCE GAUB, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • Plans from earlier this month will hit a breaking point.
    Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • But a series of lousy draft picks and a lack of an attractive infrastructure — that imaginary permanent practice facility is being built any day now! — have kept them from acquiring the sort of superstars that carry teams in crunch time, the kind of difference-makers this town deserves.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2025
  • In crunch time, the Thunder successfully countered the Pacers’ blitzing coverage on the MVP by having Williams sit in the weak-side slot.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 17 June 2025

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