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daylight

[day-lahyt] / ˈdeɪˌlaɪt /


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It would not actually increase the amount of daylight, but shift an hour of it from the morning to the evening by the clock.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

“If that could happen in broad daylight with no response, then no organization was safe,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Using tribal power and rigorous detective work, a family of an army officer in Yemen tries to find out how he was abducted in broad daylight, and what happened to him afterward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

That means places in northern Scotland are losing daylight more quickly at this time of year than parts of southern England.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

We plunged through a small gap of daylight just as the walls thundered down behind us.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

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

Once it reached the southern end of the park, the daylighting task would become devilishly complicated.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2016

The architectural details on exteriors evolved under daylighting outdoors so that their form has been determined by the shadows desired.

From Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 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 artwork, 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. 1, 2023

However, after global warming uncovered it, mining was started and on one daylit Arctic night the miners awoke to find their camp surrounded by angry polar bears.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2018

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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