lightning strike
noun
1
British
: a strike by workers that is done very suddenly
2
: an occurrence of something being hit by lightning
The forest fire was caused by a lightning strike.
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Detecting red flags Last July, an algorithm used by Pano A.I. detected smoke from a lightning strike that caused a remote high-risk fire on Bennett Mountain in Douglas County, California.
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Anna Fiorentino, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025
Its ceiling once featured 39 Rubens paintings, which were destroyed in a 1718 fire caused by a lightning strike.
—Nina Siegal, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
It’s taken Art Basel, which has been in business since 1970 as this August fair for real connoisseurs and in many ways for more purist audiences, and the Miami lightning strike was really to course correct that and totally disrupt and explode that into a much larger stage.
—Joelle Diderich, WWD, 15 Oct. 2024
Less than a fortnight after launching a lightning strike from its stronghold in northern Syria, the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) this week succeeded in ending the 24-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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Anna Fiorentino, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025
Its ceiling once featured 39 Rubens paintings, which were destroyed in a 1718 fire caused by a lightning strike.
—Nina Siegal, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
It’s taken Art Basel, which has been in business since 1970 as this August fair for real connoisseurs and in many ways for more purist audiences, and the Miami lightning strike was really to course correct that and totally disrupt and explode that into a much larger stage.
—Joelle Diderich, WWD, 15 Oct. 2024
Less than a fortnight after launching a lightning strike from its stronghold in northern Syria, the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) this week succeeded in ending the 24-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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“Lightning strike.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lightning%20strike. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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