daylight
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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
New York City would see its earliest sunset at 5:28 p.m. on year-round daylight saving time, instead of 4:28 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Of the 51 current members of the House from California — there is one vacancy — 42 backed year-round daylight saving time, namely, 33 Democrats, all eight Republicans and one independent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Even in the daylight he made Penelope nervous, though, and now—what was he doing here, in the dead of night?
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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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
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Amy Chester, the managing director of Rebuild by Design, a nonprofit group, said that daylighting projects, like the one to reroute Tibbetts Brook, were important in making New York more resilient.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
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
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 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 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
Art schools have always had open plans, daylit work spaces and power tools.
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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