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lightning conductor

NOUN
lightning rod
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You hear of microphones being hit by lightning; and the scaffolding around the stage is basically a lightning conductor.

From BBC • May 22, 2018

Kennedy’s firsthand experience of visceral hunger in America ran as a lightning conductor through his run for the White House.

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2018

In general, Shapiro sees Shakespeare in a more benign context as a lightning conductor for American political and economic culture.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2016

Wayne Rooney will always be a lightning conductor for debate and conjecture in an England context.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2014

A lightning conductor should be pointed at top, and extend some feet above the highest part of the edifice, or mast.

From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry