powder 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
In other words, it was a black powder keg.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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