noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The refugee camps are a tinderbox waiting to catch fire.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the top of the cellar steps Broadman knelt down and fumbled in his tinderbox .
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Others plan to leave the Southwest for northern states untouched by the drought that has left Arizona a tinderbox .
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The Balkans have a long and tragically deserved reputation as a political tinderbox .
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They can go for years without rain there, and when that happens, the whole state turns into a tinderbox .