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time bomb
noun as in bomb with a timer
Strongest match
Weak matches
Example Sentences
That’s the only way to defuse the ticking time bomb that is Nigeria before it explodes on all of us.
This image feeds into fears of crime, violence and social unrest in which people who are jobless are cast as a “ticking time bomb” that poses a threat to a country’s stability.
Here’s How to End itBut the conflict in Yemen also helps explain why so little has been done to address the ticking time bomb on its shores.
Inside was a time bomb set to explode in 15 minutes, Widmer wrote.
Kushel said that the the realities and risks associated with a large-scale shelter amounted to a ticking time bomb, even with commendable efforts to protect Convention Center residents.
So that was just a ticking time bomb until the Germans had to do something.
A case could be made that Bynes was, in effect, a ticking time bomb.
But in the background, a separate time-bomb is ticking for Israel.
“This is a time bomb which preoccupies us most,” he told a panel at Davos.
Some officials in China do recognize that Tibet is a time bomb waiting to explode.
"According to the time-bomb down below," repeated Mr. Conne, still sociably but with a keen, searching look.
It would be just like you to have set a time bomb somewhere in this submarine to blow her up after you were all safely out of her.
Despite his liking for Prochaska, Crag couldn't forget that he had failed to find the time bomb in a panel he had twice searched.
Look at them now—the missile attack on the Aztec, the time bomb plant, the way they operate their networks right in our midst.
Privately, he had decided that no man would be left alone until the mystery of the time bomb was cleared up.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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