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flashpoint

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Flashpoint (1984) is a film starring Kris Kristofferson and Treat Williams . Rip Torn , Jean Smart , Kurtwood Smith , and Tess Harper also co-star. The movie was directed by William Tannen and based on a novel by George La Fountaine. This was the first ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Vukovar was one of the early flashpoints in the former Yugoslavia. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Certain key variables highlighted by Grant and Wallace correspond to those factors considered especially crucial by the flashpoints ...

Usage examples of flashpoint.

Let it all get past this chokepoint, follow it over the bridge, then overtake the more vulnerable sections and join up with the dockworkers for the final potential flashpoint.

Mission, Circuit Completed, Firestorm, Flashpoint, Timewarp, Crackup, Blackout!

There are fewer watchdogs here, and most of those are focused on the obvious flashpoints, where the BBS intersects most directly with the abstract plane.

Matt speculates sickly that some of the people deterred at other flashpoints have had the same idea as he has and concentrated their forces on this.

Everyone in the vicinity recognized a potential flashpoint when they saw one forming, and prefered to put a little distance between them and whatever unpleasantness might occur.

More ecological decay, more flashpoint wars over crop failures and water shortages, more floods of refugees washing across the southern continents, more sabre-rattling between the Chinese and Maclachlan's government.