time bombs

plural of time bomb
as in volcanos
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 of time bombs 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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volcanoes
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  • Mexico’s Indigenous peoples, however, maintained respect for the woman, naming volcanoes, peaks and ceremonial dances after her.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The Philippines is prone to natural disasters because of its location along the Ring of Fire, a 25,000-mile (40,000-kilometer) arc of seismic fault lines around the Pacific Ocean home to more than half of the world’s volcanoes, and regularly experiences powerful quakes.
    Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Time bombs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/time%20bombs. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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