like lightning

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Those remarkable dressings displayed here reveal dynamic, shorthand ink vignettes—energetic hieroglyphs and vibrating, wiry stick figures whose spells discharge like lightning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Musk pushed back, saying on X that “SpaceX is moving like lightning compared to the rest of the space industry.”

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026

In a sense, the whole story of “Waitress” feels like lightning in a bottle.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2023

It looked like lightning was going to strike twice at the City Ground.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2023

I see a bright ripple, like lightning, in the water.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes