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daylight

[dey-lahyt] / ˈdeɪˌlaɪt /


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The home side put some daylight between themselves and Toulouse on 51 minutes when Eseh came off the bench to power through three tackles to score under the posts.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

Business leaders who have interacted privately with Bardella say he has revealed little about his economic approach, leaving many to wonder if there is really any daylight between him and Le Pen.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

During daylight hours, the larvae descend more than 200 meters into a deep region of the lake with very little oxygen.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

They are most active during daylight hours and usually bite just after sunrise and around sunset.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

He wrapped mine also to keep down the clatter, and soon we were pedaling through the blacked-out streets of Haarlem at a speed that would have scared me even in daylight.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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 Luckiesh, Matthew

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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