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time bombs

noun

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plural of time bomb

as in volcanoes

a potentially explosive place or situation the region's political instability has turned it into a ticking time bomb

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Recent Examples of time bombs 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

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volcanoes

Noun

Instead, Chinese Indonesian studio operators worked with Javanese painters to produce popular backdrops of local Indonesian landscapes—featuring scenery such as palm trees and volcanoes—with modern instruments like radios and motorboats serving as props.

— H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 17 Apr. 2026
Lassen has all four types of volcanoes, though the group never saw them, as the park had no roads in 1920.

— Jacqueline Kehoe, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2026