land mine
Example Sentences
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Command recovered a North Korean land mine at the blast site, Seoul’s military said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The market will sort thought which software vendors can stand strong and which will fall, leaving the sector somewhat of a land mine.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
He said “stepping up monitoring and preparedness” is needed to avoid “triggering the land mine into a full-scale pandemic.”
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2025
It is a land mine for prosecutors—one that has sunk other high-profile cases, such as the 2008 prosecution of then-Sen.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2023
“If an elephant isn’t heavy enough to set off a land mine, I certainly won’t do it,” Nhamo declared.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
