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as in volcano
a potentially explosive place or situation
that troubled region remains one of the world's most dangerous flash points
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as in crisis
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 of flash point
Yet with each subsequent racial flash point, from the arrest of Henry Louis Gates in 2009 to the murder of George Floyd, calls resurfaced for the national conversation.
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Lee Bebout, The Conversation, 16 Sep. 2025
Early on, Feld became Chicago’s most divisive restaurant, a flash point for critics of highfalutin many-course tasting menus.
—The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
This is just the latest flash point in a controversial career for Suárez.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
The union will also be looking to address health and pension issues, a flash point ever since thousands of retirees were kicked off the health plan in 2020, as well as protections against artificial intelligence.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
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Lee Bebout, The Conversation, 16 Sep. 2025
Early on, Feld became Chicago’s most divisive restaurant, a flash point for critics of highfalutin many-course tasting menus.
—The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
This is just the latest flash point in a controversial career for Suárez.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
The union will also be looking to address health and pension issues, a flash point ever since thousands of retirees were kicked off the health plan in 2020, as well as protections against artificial intelligence.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flash point
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The island has been troubled by ash falls and lava flows since 1995, when the Soufriere Hills volcano erupted for the first time in hundreds of years.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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Italy’s Campi Flegrei volcano is depicted in Greek and Roman mythology as the entrance to the underworld.—
NPR,
NPR,
10 Oct. 2025
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The technology is claimed to be scalable technology has universal applications across the mobility, infrastructure, commercial, and consumer sectors, which Genuine H2 believes will provide a ‘right now’ solution to the climate and energy crisis.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Oct. 2025
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But as baby boxes spread, other people are questioning whether this is the best way to support women in crisis.—
Alana Semuels,
Time,
8 Oct. 2025
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Ray’s most chaotic photograms—jumbles that push out of the frame or look like time bombs ready to explode—find echoes in his films, projected on the back walls, a show in themselves.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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Ignoring deforestation is a ticking time bomb for coffee companies, which stand to see production decrease and prices increase in an increasingly hot and dry world.—
Marianne Krasny,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Thermodynamics drives selective recovery The researchers hypothesized that FJH combined with chlorine gas could exploit differences in Gibbs free energy and boiling points to selectively remove non-REE elements from magnet waste.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Sep. 2025
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As seen in a video posted by Nuclr Golf on X, a drink appeared to be thrown at Erica Stoll, Rory McIlroy’s wife, as tensions around the European group reached a boiling point.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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This week, KitchenAid is offering up to $170 off select tilt-head stand mixers, along with a few other deals.—
Melissa Knific,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
9 Oct. 2025
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Jason Smith, AbbVie’s senior vice president and head of Europe commercial operations.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
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Snell was able to build a brilliant performance in part because the Dodgers ground the hard-throwing Greene to his breaking point.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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That’s almost the scale of electricity that Sam Altman and his partners say will be devoured by their next wave of AI data centers—a single corporate project consuming more power, every single day, than two American cities pushed to their breaking point.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2025
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Vance Joseph relied heavily on simulated pressures against Philadelphia and then did away with any simulation in crunch time against New York.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
13 Oct. 2025
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Lindsey showed the last element in crunch time Saturday, trailing 28-24 with six minutes left in the fourth quarter.—
Andy Greder,
Twin Cities,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Flash point.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flash%20point. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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