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

"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

“I feel like lightning did strike twice — and then some.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024

My angry thoughts hiss and pop like lightning.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton