keg
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The career soldier, who in 2021 collaborated with Daglo to oust civilians from a transitional government, wrote on Wednesday: "I long recognised that the RSF was a powder keg."
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
I long recognized that the RSF was a powder keg.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
For Crudup, Timothy isn’t a bitter powder keg but a man looking for a little closure, someone who has made peace with the past until the moment he doesn’t get the apology he’s expecting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
Dahlia Lithwick: I find the public-facing discourse around shootings to be impoverished, dangerous, and a powder keg on its own terms.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025
Tension on the line locks the keg under the front seat and then the skiff jerks out from under my feet.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
It is commonly used as a synonym for small: Kegs are a half barrel of beer, while pony kegs are a quarter barrel, Purser said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
To prepare for Thursday’s night’s match against Tunisia, Wallingford had 35 kegs of beer cooling and 400 croquettes—a Dutch fried snack—shipped from out of town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Tires, kegs and a safe are among the belongings piled on the front lawn.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2024
Now, the "black stuff" is produced on a huge campus of buildings, connected up with metal piping, and accompanied by the clanging of metal kegs being transported by forklift trucks.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2024
One, two, three, four...Counting them over and over, as if that would replenish the empty water kegs and meager slabs of salted meat.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
