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Free sign upThe phrase 'primed to explode' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe a situation that is about to become chaotic or violent, often due to underlying tensions that have been building up over time. For example, "The neighborhood was primed to explode, with tensions high following the announcement of an unpopular decision."
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It was primed to explode.
Society is now primed to explode.
It was born diverse, unstable, already primed to explode.
When the two parked their car, which was also primed to explode, the police arrested them.
Is there any defending the violence of this picture, in which every scene feels primed to explode?
He describes the Congo-Rwanda border area, plagued by its own unresolved ethnic and land issues, primed to explode.
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If there were no boos, an audience clearly primed to go crazy never exploded into cathartic pandemonium.
This was able either to allow fresh magma to enter a volcano from deeper within the Earth, or to promote the release of magma already stored within a volcano that was primed and ready to explode.
This instability makes Eta Carinae a prime candidate to explode as a supernova or even hypernova in our vicinity.
Moreover, their numbers are poised to explode.
Bensel noted, "The pump was more than primed, it was ready to explode".
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