lightning conductor
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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
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 the summer of 1921 the steeplejacks employed to test the lightning conductor found that the iron cramps had rusted to such an extent as to split the stonework.
From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Holmes, Edric
