How to Use flash point in a Sentence
flash point
noun
- The situation reached a flash point when union leaders urged the workers to protest.
- The city became a flash point as political tensions grew.
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Big Tech is a flash point now for antitrust across the globe.
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Eddie Spence,
Fortune,
9 Dec. 2019
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A number of flash points have emerged this week as the two men hit the campaign trail.
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Chuck Todd,
NBC News,
2 June 2023
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The poll comes as taxes become a key flash point in the 2024 election.
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Byjason Ma,
Fortune,
23 June 2024
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Crimea is not the only flash point between the two countries.
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Robyn Dixon,
Washington Post,
28 Nov. 2019
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The area was a flash point in the fighting, another site of a prolonged and bloody battle in the war.
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John Ganz,
Harper's Magazine,
22 May 2024
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Debates rage over which front line might become the next flash point.
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Liz Sly,
Washington Post,
18 May 2018
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In the first few weeks of the conflict, headlines became a flash point for readers.
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Clare Malone,
The New Yorker,
10 July 2024
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The presence of squeegee kids on Baltimore’s streets has have been a flash point for years.
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Washington Post,
25 Nov. 2021
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While Poe is an icon, Lovecraft has become a flash point.
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Michael Dirda,
Washington Post,
24 Feb. 2023
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Key West’s cruise business has become a statewide flash point.
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Fran Golden,
Anchorage Daily News,
26 Apr. 2021
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The trawlers have become a flash point in an often emotional debate about the fate of the snow crab.
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Anchorage Daily News,
4 Apr. 2022
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But her interaction with Cody seemed to be a flash point.
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Jonathan O'Connell, Paul Farhi and Sofia Andrade,
Anchorage Daily News,
26 Aug. 2023
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Amber Guyger’s case became a flash point for those conflicts and so much more.
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Mika Brzezinski,
NBC News,
3 Oct. 2019
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The Floyd incident came the same day as another racial flash point that shook Wall Street.
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Sridhar Natarajan,
Fortune,
2 June 2020
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But there also has been increased shelling on this potential flash point in the east of the country.
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ABC News,
20 Feb. 2022
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But, in Buttigieg’s second term, homelessness became a flash point for the city.
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Charles Bethea,
The New Yorker,
24 June 2019
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Asia has no shortage of flash points, notably over Taiwan and the South China Sea.
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Susannah Patton,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Sep. 2024
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As the pandemic drags on, travel has become a flash point for mask rules.
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Washington Post,
22 Sep. 2021
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The area surrounding the offices has been a flash point for protesters for months.
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Washington Post,
2 Nov. 2019
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Exemptions aren’t the only flash points the bills address.
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Time,
13 June 2019
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How did McDonald’s become a new flash point in the Israel-Gaza war?
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Niha Masih,
Washington Post,
6 Mar. 2024
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Whether such care is right for minors has become a major flash point in the culture wars across the country.
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Steve Karnowski,
ajc,
23 Mar. 2023
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There were flash points between the witnesses and the senators, as well.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg,
New York Times,
12 May 2020
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The big picture These types of pursuits have proven to be a major flash point for tech companies.
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Sage Lazzaro,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2024
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Among the flash points in overtourism is Venice, where some 30 million travelers throng each year.
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Alexander Pohl,
National Geographic,
4 Nov. 2019
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As was true in the football iteration of this series, many of the guys on the ELAC team are at a crucial flash point in their young lives.
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Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2021
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Taiwan has reemerged as a flash point in US-China tensions in recent years.
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Rebecca Choong Wilkins,
Bloomberg.com,
13 Oct. 2022
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Walker’s case is the latest civil rights flash point in Georgia.
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Jaclyn Peiser,
Washington Post,
14 Sep. 2020
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