Thesaurus results for TIME BOMBS

time bombs

noun

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plural of time bomb

as in volcanoes

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

Noun

The Island of Hawaii features three famous volcanoes — Kilauea with its spectacular eruptions, Mauna Kea and its spectacular sunsets, and Mauna Loa, the world’s highest mountain when measured from its underwater base to the summit.

— Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
The other satellite system, NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), typically uses radar imaging to continually map and track changes across the Earth’s surface, including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and ice sheet collapses.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 27 May 2026