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lightning conductor

NOUN
lightning rod
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We are also about to find out what happens when the lightning conductor is removed from a building and it remains stormy.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

On internet chatrooms and in online debates, he is a ubiquitous reference point, a lightning conductor in many contemporary social and intellectual disagreements.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2019

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 Henry Negretti


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