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 find confirms that tool-using humans could have witnessed the eruption from a safe distance; survivors recorded the event in the story told by the Gunditjmara people who have lived continuously in the region of Australia’s youngest volcanoes.
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Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
The Highlands The Highlands are an untamed region full of volcanoes, black deserts, and crater lakes.
—Gwen Nicol, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2025
Active volcanoes and lava fields nearby create a stunning landscape—but also mean you could be evacuated at a moment’s notice.
—Maya Silver, Outside, 21 Oct. 2025
Making Mulch Volcanoes Landscaping services like to build mulch volcanoes around tree trunks, piling them higher and higher each year.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
These were samples collected from Greenland, Alexo in Canada's Abitibi belt and the Winnipegosis komatiite belt in Manitoba; Hawaii's Kama'ehuakanaloa and Mauna Loa volcanoes; and the Newberry volcano in the Cascade Range of the northwestern United States.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2025
About 150 volcanoes in the Atacama Andes—including Láscar, Chile’s most active—create this shape-shifting environment that’s as active as the travelers cresting it.
—Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
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
Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
The Highlands The Highlands are an untamed region full of volcanoes, black deserts, and crater lakes.
—Gwen Nicol, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2025
Active volcanoes and lava fields nearby create a stunning landscape—but also mean you could be evacuated at a moment’s notice.
—Maya Silver, Outside, 21 Oct. 2025
Making Mulch Volcanoes Landscaping services like to build mulch volcanoes around tree trunks, piling them higher and higher each year.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
These were samples collected from Greenland, Alexo in Canada's Abitibi belt and the Winnipegosis komatiite belt in Manitoba; Hawaii's Kama'ehuakanaloa and Mauna Loa volcanoes; and the Newberry volcano in the Cascade Range of the northwestern United States.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2025
About 150 volcanoes in the Atacama Andes—including Láscar, Chile’s most active—create this shape-shifting environment that’s as active as the travelers cresting it.
—Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
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
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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Arrests are taking place all over the Chicago area, but some of the biggest flash points have occurred on the South and West Sides, which are home to many of the city’s largest Black and Latino communities.—
Geraldo Cadava,
New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2025
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Those efforts are now critical as AI and semiconductors become geopolitical flash points.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
5 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Volcanoes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/volcanoes. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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