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flashpoint
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'"Flashpoint" ' is a 2011 comic book crossover story arc published by DC Comics . Consisting of an eponymous core limited series and a number of tie-in titles, the storyline premiered in May 2011. The core miniseries was written by Geoff Johns and pencilled ...
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n. point at which something is ready to blow up [syn: flash point ] the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air [syn: flash point ]
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.