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

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

The whole morning news team experience in those early years was like lightning in a bottle.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2024

It looked like lightning was going to strike twice at the City Ground.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2023

He played intelligently, keeping the ball low, out of the reach of Rosalie’s always-ready hand in the outfield, gaining two bases like lightning before Emmett could get the ball back in play.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer