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
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.
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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
That’s nearly five times hotter than lava that spews from volcanoes on Earth, and just like lava, the Sun glows from the heat.
—Samuel Badman, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 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
Diamonds preserving chemical reactions The Earth’s mantle is a massive layer that drives volcanoes, recycles the planet’s crust, and regulates its long-term development.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
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
That’s nearly five times hotter than lava that spews from volcanoes on Earth, and just like lava, the Sun glows from the heat.
—Samuel Badman, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 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
Diamonds preserving chemical reactions The Earth’s mantle is a massive layer that drives volcanoes, recycles the planet’s crust, and regulates its long-term development.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 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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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
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“Volcanoes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/volcanoes. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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