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daylight

[dey-lahyt] / ˈdeɪˌlaɪt /


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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

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

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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