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flashpoint
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Flashpoint was a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11, 2008 on CTV . In the United States, the series originally aired on CBS, then aired on Ion Television ; in the United Kingdom it aired on Universal Channel . The series has ...
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 ...
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alt. 1 The lowest temperature at which a liquid can form an ignitable mixture in air near the surface of the liquid. 2 (context figuratively English) A hotspot; a dangerous place of violent political unrest n. 1 The lowest temperature at which a liquid ...
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.