daylight
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Solar can’t fill the winter power gap because of “snow, clouds, and shortened daylight hours,” the grid operator says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Rolapp cited an industry estimate that additional evening daylight could produce 23 million more rounds of golf and $1 billion in annual revenue.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Los Angeles County Fire Department Incident Command “was unaware that the fire had progressed through west Altadena until the daylight hours on January 8, 2025,” the report read.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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
All in all, waiting until daylight seemed like a good idea.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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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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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
These include removing urban impediments to let streams flow once again, a process known as daylighting; restoring wetlands and planting trees.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 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
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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