tinderboxes

plural of tinderbox

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Recent Examples of tinderboxes Unlike natural thinning, large fire-resilient trees are typically high-graded for felling in Jackson, creating tinderboxes of 300 to 500 mostly juvenile trees per acre. John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
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Noun
  • The Philippines sits along the Ring of Fire, a 25,000-mile (40,000-kilometer) arc of seismic fault lines around the Pacific Ocean that hosts more than half of the world’s volcanoes.
    Brandon Miller, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Today, programs such as the USGS Volcanic Hazards Program and the Global Volcanism Program focus on preparation by monitoring active volcanoes through a variety of techniques.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That move set in motion two decades of big inflations, serial currency and banking crises, and debt defaults.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman was a leader of the Janjaweed militia, which killed hundreds of thousands of members of Darfur’s non-Arab population in the early 2000s, sparking one of the world’s gravest and most enduring humanitarian crises.
    Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Our institutions – businesses, universities, and society – stand at this crossroads.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • That geography has long placed the Central Asian nation at a crossroads, straddling both Europe and Asia.
    Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Tinderboxes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinderboxes. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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