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lightning rounds

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Plural of lightning round

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It also seems impossible not to, when it takes the form of a seven-way debate marked by careful answers, evasions, 10- and 15-second "lightning rounds" and not one focused exchange between the two leading candidates for governor, because a seven-way debate isn't.

Hopefully HQ will spice things up with image, audio and other media-based questions, celebrity guests, in-chat badges for past winners or special lightning rounds.

Lightning rounds have been in use for several years, now, so candidates must know to expect them.

This question requires a "yes" or "no" answer: Are the "lightning rounds" that have become fashionable in candidate debates dumb or what?

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Lightning round.

Schrage did a lightning round of app-development research.

But Mrs. Bachmann quickly strode out from the wings, and a lightning round soon commenced.

#YouTubeAsksObama: "Drake or Kendrick Lamar?" Watch @POTUS answer this question and more during a lightning round.

In a lightning round on pop culture, the triplets followed clues to name famous duos.

It was like the lightning round of a game show for ESPN's Tom Rinaldi and the Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman.

The court hearing lasted only an hour — a lightning round in a case that had stretched on and on.

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