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flash point

noun as in crucial moment

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The incident is the latest flash point in how police use Tasers, particularly against the elderly.

In sports, Lynch cites a global soccer scandal as a flash point for companies speaking out and becoming more supportive of athletes who do so, too.

From Time

The hope is by being proactive, keeping them safe, that hopefully we can ultimately prevent that flash point crisis moment.

The flash points become issues of data rights rather than rights of way.

Any attempt to step around the fire engulfing the American zeitgeist using entertainment, spectacle or absurdity would be, again, an easy flash point to an angry debate regarding tone deafness or lack of awareness.

From Digiday

Afghanistan, and the timetable for withdrawal, will once again be a flash point.

It is Spirit, the flash-point of the soul, which receives and transmits and which lives this living.

The flash point of an oil is that temperature at which it will form an inflammable vapor.

The flash point of kerosene may be between 70 and 150 degrees Fahrenheit, depending upon the grade.

For illuminating purposes, do not use kerosene with the flash point lower than 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

They reached the flash-point of action at almost an identical moment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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