Highlight/find all strings matching the string under the cursor
Say you're looking at some code in vim in visual mode:

The cursor is over the string include. Pressing the * key then goes through the page and highlights all matches as such:

You can even see the regex vim produced at the bottom of the window.
Written by Matt Campbell
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