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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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With the rise in teenage HIV infection rates, we are sitting on a time bomb .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her footsteps and the faint noise of her limbs striking one another as she walked sounded like the mechanism of a time bomb .
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I felt like a walking time bomb , set to detonate in sixty minutes.
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It is a time bomb waiting to explode.
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Our baby is a bomb, too: a time bomb .
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The man is clearly a walking time bomb .
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The Senate version of the bill contained a time bomb , however.
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Was it some psychic time bomb long ago planted on Ludlow Street?