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lightning conductor

noun

  1. a metal strip terminating in a series of sharp points, attached to the highest part of a building, etc, to discharge the electric field before it can reach a dangerous level and cause a lightning strike
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“Dominic is a lightning conductor†who will try to move fast and break things, he said, adding: “Johnson is a swashbuckler, and so is Dominic.â€

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Unless I got impaled on a tomato cane, like the priest in The Omen who gets spiked by a falling lightning conductor.

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A culture ministry statement said the citadel’s lightning conductor, which is set apart from the 2,500-year-old marble buildings, was hit.

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

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As such, Stone acts as a lightning conductor, channeling the legal peril posed by Mueller deep into the heart of Trump’s inner circle.

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