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What is a tinderbox?

What is a tinderbox? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A small container containing flint, steel, and tinder (dry, finely-divided fibrous matter), once used to help kindle a fire.
  2. (by extension) a place that is so dry and hot that there is danger of fire.
  3. (by extension) a potentially dangerous situation.
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The Yukon was also a tinderbox with dry conditions and a record warm May to August, tying 1989 as the warmest such period on the books.
Iron and flint I had in my brass tinderbox, and I knelt down by the rocky ledge and began to gather bits of bark.
Everyone knew the stand was a bit of a tinderbox, but none actually thought it would go up.
Though neither superpower has troops on the ground, Alderaan could become the tinderbox that sparks a return to a galaxy-spanning war.
I flicked open the tinderbox, struggled with the flint several times before getting a light, and held it up with a shaking hand.
The city decided to cancel the Canada Day fireworks for the first time in history due to tinderbox conditions in city ravines and woodlots.

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