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lightninglike en · ADJ

Etymology

From lightning + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of lightning.
   • Connecting the images is the oratorio’s Latin text in calligraphy, by Brody Neusenschwander, that scrolls up the screen sideways in lightninglike flashes that disappear almost in the blink of eye. 2007 April 27, Stephen Holden, “Mankind’s Appetite for Destruction in the 20th Century”, in New York Times:

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