"flashpoint" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to describe a tense situation, especially when referring to a potential conflict or crisis. Example sentence: The Middle East has become a flashpoint, and international superpowers are trying to find a way to avoid an escalation of the conflict.
The trouble with this is that it risks provoking the very sectarian conflict Sinn Féin (alongside others, including working-class loyalists) has been successfully preventing in flashpoint areas all around Belfast in recent years.
He also pointed to a new tripwire saying: "People will be looking at Mariupol as the next potential flashpoint, and if that were to happen I think the argument for further action would be overwhelming.
This is why the Gare du Nord is a flashpoint.
The final group under stress thanks to the emergence of this new flashpoint are the loyalists themselves, or to be more specific, the loyalist terrorist groups such as the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Defence Association.
Previous works include Jeremy Deller's Battle of Orgreave, in which he organised the re-enactment of a memorable flashpoint between police and striking miners, and PJ Harvey publicly recording her next album in a glass studio in Somerset House.
Held against the backdrop of longstanding tensions over Kosovo, the former Serbian province declared independence in 2008 and is populated mainly by ethnic Albanians, the match was always going to be a flashpoint.
A new Tory-Liberal Democrat flashpoint has emerged with senior Liberal Democrats revealing their intention to join a cross-party rebellion to demand a quickly established decarbonisation target for the power sector.
The territorial dispute over the islands is a regional flashpoint and an earlier ACRI report set out several "plausible" scenarios which could lead to a conflict between Australia's two largest trading partners.
It is clearly not in either the parties' or the two men's interests if one parade at one single flashpoint causes serious inter-communal damage this autumn.
Jos, a city that has long been a flashpoint for ethnic tensions exacerbated by tensions over resources and power, has largely escaped the violence in Boko Haram's north-eastern strongholds.
The flashpoint is Scotland, where an independence referendum will take place, but Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, also hopes to see the union fragment.
