lightning bolt
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Images of Mamdani's kurta - a traditional loose-fitting tunic - based on Arsenal's 2025-26 navy and red lightning bolt away shirt, went viral.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
That “better” isn’t a lightning bolt so much as a slow accumulation — small, incremental shifts that bring something closer, then closer still.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026
Pulsed power stores energy in large capacitors and releases it in a burst, producing extremely high power for a brief moment, like a controlled lightning bolt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
One idea is that the earliest spark of a lightning bolt could arise directly from charged ice crystals.
From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2025
My brain doesn’t process what he’s said until the lightning bolt whizzes straight for me.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
