like lightning

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Kaczmarek beamed as she talked about getting back together with her former co-stars: “I always thought that show was like lightning in a bottle. ‘Malcolm’ was a mega-hit and a dream come true.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

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

"I was having severe facial pain. It felt like lightning going through my face," she said.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 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 appears only for a second before it’s gone again—a streak of white, like lightning arcing across the ocean floor.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston