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"time bomb" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a literal or figurative device that is a ticking time bomb, or something that may have a dangerous outcome. For example, "The company was facing a financial time bomb as the deadline to pay their debt approached."
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time bomb
noun
A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time.
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"It's a ticking time bomb".
"Walking time bomb".
It has been a ticking time bomb.
My arse is a time bomb, lads.
"Steroids are a time bomb," she said.
Ticking time bomb is what people say.
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"It is a time-bomb.
"We have a demographic time-bomb".
That girl is a time-bomb.
The place was like a time-bomb.
The pensions time-bomb is real.
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