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Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming.

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  1. plural noun The lungs, especially the lungs of an animal slaughtered for food.

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  • Consolidate your interest while the lights are active.??? —  MSDN Blogs
  • For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote - Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. —  The Moderate Voice
  • Man came up with an hand held instrument that he waved at the offending lights above my desk and it beeped and he told me that the lights were already 'functioning below capacity and were dim'. —  Random Jottings of a Book and Opera Lover
  • While I don't disagree with the rest of what you said, chrome on the lights is actually realistic, in a way. —  Transformers News - All News
  • Holding his hand under the lights was the man often credited with lifting John Kerry's 2004 presidential bid to a new level. —  CNN Political Ticker
 

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  1. Middle English lightes, from light, light in weight (from the lightness of the lungs compared to other organs); see light2.
 

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