variants
or volcanos
as in time bombs
a potentially explosive place or situation
after months of tension the roommates' living situation was a volcano
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Recent Examples of volcanoes
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.
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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
Li said similar technology is being used in Iceland to record how magma is moving in volcanoes.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 25 Sep. 2025
Dome volcanoes are formed from very slow, gradual eruptions of highly viscous, thick lava.
—Outside, 24 Sep. 2025
Moreover, the findings provide insights into how volcanoes form.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
Poised at the end of a humdrum interglacial, in an otherwise chilly corner of Earth history, industrial civilization is emitting carbon dioxide at a clip 10 times faster than the apocalyptic volcanoes of the end-Permian mass extinction.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Some scholars countered that Venusian volcanoes could have produced phosphine; others said that the measurements were dubious, and the mystery gas wasn’t phosphine.
—David W. Brown, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
Seamounts are typically extinct volcanoes that either didn’t reach the surface or were submerged over the centuries, experts say.
—Mark Price, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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
Li said similar technology is being used in Iceland to record how magma is moving in volcanoes.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 25 Sep. 2025
Dome volcanoes are formed from very slow, gradual eruptions of highly viscous, thick lava.
—Outside, 24 Sep. 2025
Moreover, the findings provide insights into how volcanoes form.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
Poised at the end of a humdrum interglacial, in an otherwise chilly corner of Earth history, industrial civilization is emitting carbon dioxide at a clip 10 times faster than the apocalyptic volcanoes of the end-Permian mass extinction.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Some scholars countered that Venusian volcanoes could have produced phosphine; others said that the measurements were dubious, and the mystery gas wasn’t phosphine.
—David W. Brown, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
Seamounts are typically extinct volcanoes that either didn’t reach the surface or were submerged over the centuries, experts say.
—Mark Price, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for volcanoes
Noun
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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
Noun
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Those efforts are now critical as AI and semiconductors become geopolitical flash points.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Volcanoes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/volcanoes. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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