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

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

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2023

Amell, who starred as Oliver Queen in The CW’s “Arrow,” has said he never thought he would find a role as satisfying as that, and playing Jack is like lightning striking twice.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 23, 2023

The green light filled the cramped hallway, it lit the pram pushed against the wall, it made the banisters glare like lightning rods, and James Potter fell like a marionette whose strings were cut....

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling