Thesaurus results for VOLCANO

volcano

noun

väl-ˈkā-(ˌ)nō

Definition of volcano

as in time bomb

a potentially explosive place or situation after months of tension the roommates' living situation was a volcano

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Recent Examples of volcano Etna may be the first large volcano formed by this same process. — Refractor, 27 July 2026 Over millions of years, the planet is resculpted as tectonic plates shift, volcanoes erupt and land erodes. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 25 July 2026 Of course, no trip to Costa Rica is complete without hiking to a volcano, experiencing the hot springs, or ziplining (or all of the above). — Gina Kramer, USA Today, 25 July 2026 This constant tidal flexing generates enormous amounts of internal heat, fueling hundreds of active volcanoes and making Io the most volcanically active object in the solar system. — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 24 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for volcano

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During this same year, Chemours sued the other DuPont companies, claiming it had been handed a financial time bomb because of the PFAS liability it had been left with.

— Susanne Rust Follow, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
Malloy crisscrossed the state during his first few months in office, holding 17 town meetings to explain the fiscal ticking time bomb represented by unfunded pension obligations.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of time bomb

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After all, his previous four seasons spent coaching the Trojans had been nothing short of a powder keg, filled with ups and downs, as well as a constant undercurrent of tension and uncertainty.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
More recently, Washington backed Albania’s entry into NATO, in 2009, and has upheld its security in a historically volatile region that’s sometimes called the powder keg of Europe.

— Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026

Definition of powder keg

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Kashmir remains one of the world’s most contentious geopolitical flash points.

— Peter Dziedzic, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
The legendary talk show vet takes EW inside the pop cultural flash point that was his and wife Connie Chung’s attempts in the early 1990s to have a child.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026

Definition of flash point

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