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tinderboxes

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plural of tinderbox

as in volcanoes

a potentially explosive place or situation officials sought to calm the situation, which had grown into a tinderbox

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as in crises

a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action while the country's prime minister was meeting with the U.S. president, a political tinderbox was igniting at home

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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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Filmmaker Sara Dosa is going from the molten to the melting, from fiery volcanoes to dissolving glaciers.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2026
El Niño cycles So scientists went digging for answers to the mystery heat, tapping ideas from volcanoes to the sun to the clouds floating overhead.

— Lauren Sommer, NPR, 12 Mar. 2026