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- noun Plural form of
time-bomb .
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Examples
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Future generations will have to pay the environmental damages whether it is to their own health, to the viability of the lands these toxic time-bombs sit on, or the loss of ag lands and water resources.
Jeff Biggers: Coal Slurry Scandal: Gov. Quinn, the High Hazard Dam in Hillsboro Is a National Disgrace Jeff Biggers 2011
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Future generations will have to pay the environmental damages whether it is to their own health, to the viability of the lands these toxic time-bombs sit on, or the loss of ag lands and water resources.
Jeff Biggers: Coal Slurry Scandal: Gov. Quinn, the High Hazard Dam in Hillsboro Is a National Disgrace Jeff Biggers 2011
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We suspect that in the 1960s as now—with ObamaCare—liberals knew they had created fiscal time-bombs.
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So, if GM starts selling time-bombs on wheels, we can sue the government?
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Perhaps 'methane time-bombs,' and hopefully errant Soviet warheads, will never go off, not because they are or are not 'in the cards', but because our coming to better understand their potential to do so might of itself rapidly shift our understanding and hence our strategy, and we will defuse the situation.
Nathan Currier: Methane in the Twilight Zone (First Episode) Nathan Currier 2012
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But, but, he saves us from ticking time-bombs every week!
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Future generations will have to pay the environmental damages whether it is to their own health, to the viability of the lands these toxic time-bombs sit on, or the loss of ag lands and water resources.
Jeff Biggers: Coal Slurry Scandal: Gov. Quinn, the High Hazard Dam in Hillsboro Is a National Disgrace Jeff Biggers 2011
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“So, if GM starts selling time-bombs on wheels, we can sue the government?”
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I always felt like we were planting little time-bombs in people, and they may not get it right away while they're listening to a pancake commercial that they're hearing a song by Devo, but maybe they'd hear it somewhere else and say, "Those are different lyrics."
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There is a danger that short-term myopia may end-up self defeating in the long-term as immediate gains will mask more important time-bombs.
Raj Nallari: Reflections on Development Economics After the Crisis Raj Nallari 2010
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