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daylight

[dey-lahyt] / ˈdeɪˌlaɪt /


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Customers have shared their outrage after an app used by many businesses to track timesheets and produce invoices hiked bills by as much as 1500%, with one person calling it "daylight robbery".

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

“To the extent the solar power boom was a key driver of early-to-mid summer power burn weakness, narrowing daylight hours may detract from non-thermal generation,” Eli Rubin of EBW Analytics says in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Three narrow, dark tunnels along the way throttle speeds because of the sudden contrasts from broad daylight.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

The total eclipse plunged a vast swathe of Spain from broad daylight into darkness Wednesday, drawing awed gasps and applause from spectators gathered in parks and cities across the country.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

But I confined my running to the daylight.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

A creek will be daylighted by the light-rail station.

From Seattle Times May 22, 2022

Those issues aren’t daylighted, and it makes it harder for us and the people to know what’s going on.

From Seattle Times Oct. 22, 2021

During one, Smallwood the contractor says, the tour group trekked down to the site’s man-made stream, once confined to pipes but now brilliantly daylighted with fish ladders, stream-appropriate soothing gurgles and actual returning fish.

From Seattle Times May 11, 2017

And he gets in a dig about the Master being schooled, a.k.a. daylighted and singed, by Setrakian.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2015

Almost before anybody knew it, four-year-old Princess had daylighted Shue Fly by a length and a half and huge sums of money were changing hands.

From Time Magazine Archive

And an extensive 2014 report on daylighting by Architect, the institute’s magazine, cites multiple studies that show that access to daylight can increase productivity, comfort and well-being.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 1, 2021

Long was dreading the process, daylighting all that paperwork she didn’t want to face and putting their money into investments that could lose value.

From Seattle Times Nov. 28, 2020

A signature project was restoring the base’s Crissy Field airstrip to 20 acres of tidal marsh and daylighting thousands of feet of freshwater creek that fed it.

From Scientific American Jun. 13, 2019

No reputable business is ever against proving compliance, or daylighting best practices.

From New York Times Dec. 27, 2017

It has been proved that proper artificial lighting—and there is no excuse for improper artificial lighting—is superior to most interior daylighting conditions.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh

Some of that sunlight travels through Earth’s atmosphere before it travels to the moon, and this can affect earthshine’s brightness, especially if the daylit part of our planet is strewn with highly reflective clouds.

From Scientific American Jul. 21, 2023

The painting, “L’empire des lumières,” which juxtaposes a nocturnal lamplit street with a serene daylit sky, is one of the most celebrated and enigmatic images in 20th-century art.

From New York Times Mar. 2, 2022

Staircases and halls are wide and often daylit, encouraging people to dwell between their appointments in hopes of having a creative collision.

From New York Times Aug. 4, 2016

The landscape is animated—“the wind in its long hair of eternal night,” “the eye of the river,” “the eyelashes of the trees”—and dreamy, rather than daylit.

From Slate Mar. 26, 2015

I sat there for surely an hour, staring at a daylit hole in the window blind, without smoking or taking off my coat or loosening my necktie.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger




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