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Synonyms for lightning rod
light·ning rod
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lightning rodnoun
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lightning conductorlightning rodnoun
A metallic conductor that is attached to a high point of a building and leads to the ground and protects the building from damage by lightning
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lightning conductorlightning rodnoun
A person or thing that is a target for negative reactions and distracts criticism from another target.
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lightning conductor
Princeton's WordNet
lightning rodnoun
someone who is a frequent target of negative reactions and serves to distract attention from another
Synonyms:
lightning conductorlightning rod, lightning conductornoun
a metallic conductor that is attached to a high point and leads to the ground; protects the building from destruction by lightning
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lightning conductor
How to use lightning rod in a sentence?
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
The IRPT, acting as a legal political force, had served as a lightning rod (for dissent), deflecting radical Islam, its closure and official pressure on its members is likely to push many pious Muslims out of officially registered mosques into underground ones.
In terms of sheer experience, Brainard has punched all the tickets. It would be hard to imagine a more mainstream background, for the Wall Street allies of the Biden campaign, Brainard is ideal. As a career scholar and public official, she would presumably be less of a lightning rod for progressive critics than a Wall Street figure.
While he was seen by his fiercest critics as a partisan lightning rod, that's not the prism through which Ted Kennedy saw the world, nor was it the prism through which his colleagues saw Ted Kennedy.
This is a lightning rod issue in the country right now and it is hugely emotional and polarizing. It is still unclear how it will connect with consumers.
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- bleskosvod, hromosvodCzech
- BlitzableiterGerman
- αλεξικέραυνοGreek
- fulmo vergoEsperanto
- pararrayosSpanish
- ukkosenjohdatinFinnish
- paratonnerreFrench
- շանթարգելArmenian
- parafulmineItalian
- 避雷針Japanese
- 피뢰침Korean
- bliksemafleider, donderroedeDutch
- lynavleiarNorwegian Nynorsk
- lynavlederNorwegian
- piorunochronPolish
- para-raiosPortuguese
- стрелочник, громоотво́д, козёл отпущенияRussian
- gromosvod, gromobran, munjobranSerbo-Croatian
- strelovodSlovene
- åskledareSwedish
- громовідвідUkrainian
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