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flash point

noun

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a potentially explosive place or situation that troubled region remains one of the world's most dangerous flash points

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a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action tensions between the two longtime adversaries were at a flash point

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Recent Examples on the Web In the first few weeks of the conflict, headlines became a flash point for readers. —

Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 July 2024 EVs are the latest flash point in a broader trade dispute over Chinese government subsidies and Beijing’s burgeoning exports of green technology to the 27-nation bloc. —

Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 July 2024 Beijing and Washington are contesting global economic and political leadership, and there are multiple flash points between them. —

Andrew Byers, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2024 The story might well have pivoted here and become something else—what is the flash point for displaying ugly behavior? —

Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for flash point

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