flashpoint
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7.5
- noun
- /ˈflæʃˌpɔɪnt/
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foco de tensión
- The debate over environmental policies has become a flashpoint in the upcoming election campaign.
- become a flashpoint
- often flashpoints
This story is far from over and soon a new flashpoint emerges.
- This story is far from over and soon a new flashpoint emerges.
- That's really what most historians consider the flashpoint that that led to the to the armed conflict.
- But a real early flashpoint in the understanding of this radicalization process begins with Gamergate, right?
- The first was to zoom in on particular flashpoints in Europe, on the Greek islands, for instance, or on the Hungarian border, or at the camps at Calais.
- No, it's about having a hot take that will be a flashpoint in the public discourse that will draw eyeballs to you and activate people into subscribing.
- Trade tensions, global flashpoints, Who got hot over the summer.
- Now the debate will continue to rage, and this will continue to be a flashpoint for Black Lives Matter and for freedom fighters, Proud Boys, Antifa, what whatever.
- Well, this whole vaccine thing has become a the flat and then the latest flashpoint in the culture war bullshit and so, so pretty, so fucking predictable.
Examples
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Historically, Detroit has been a flashpoint for violence along socioeconomic and racial lines.
Blog text (14) -
Preventing Kirkuk from becoming a flashpoint will require compromises on a range of difficult issues.
Academic text (2008) -
Each site of change becomes a potential flashpoint.
Academic text (1999) -
Education has been a flashpoint in the Anglophone crisis.
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The strike is the latest flashpoint in a public and often contentious battle between the mayor and the union.
Blog text (15) -
But the decision over state exchanges has become a new flashpoint in the partisan battle over the health law.
Blog text (13) -
One flashpoint was the role of religion in defining ethnicity and nationalism.
Academic text (2000) -
A new flashpoint is already looming on the horizon over the discovery of vast natural gas resources off the Lebanese coast.
Academic text (2013) -
Despite these admonitions, sacred sites have served as flashpoints of insurgency-related violence throughout Iraq's troublesome history.
Academic text (2007) -
The protest site grew into a flashpoint for clashes between police and demonstrators.
Synonyms
9
3.7
A place where problems or fighting happen often
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8.3
A place or situation likely to become suddenly violent because of tensions
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5.1
A place where political conflict or violence often happens
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7.7
A time when a situation can suddenly become violent or very dangerous
Antonyms
How Tense
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Flashpoint comes from the parts flash 'sudden light' and point 'place or moment'. A helpful image is a small spark making a quick flash, so a flashpoint is a moment or place where trouble or violence can suddenly start.