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noun

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

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How to use lightning conductor in a sentence

Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.
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He mistrusted the “shish-kebab temperament” of the conductor, the Armenian Alexander Melik-Pashayev.
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Second, Michelle served as a lightning rod in the sense of drawing attacks away from other reform groups.
A Letter of Thanks to Michelle Rhee|Dmitri Mehlhorn|August 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He made whatever was going on his own, and with such lightning speed you stopped concentrating.
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Ninety-Sixth Street marks the first delay of the trip, the cause of which is lost in a garbled announcement from the conductor.
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The left heel followed like lightning, and the right paw also slipped, letting the bear again fall heavily on the ice below.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
Spite, however, of punishments and prohibitions the use of tobacco spread with the rapidity of lightning.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
With unbreathing silence, and a heart into which all that was man within him was summoned, he followed his conductor.
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A car conductor is instructed to treat passengers civilly and to use no harsh means with them, save in extreme cases.
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His principal surely would not be liable, though the conductor doubtless would be.
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