daylight
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The molecules are small and water-soluble, and they respond to common visible or white light, including normal indoor illumination and daylight, without the need for unusually intense or specialized light sources.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
It is an ideal fuel for buried embers, which can lie dormant until favourable conditions, such as wind and dry weather, allow them to reignite in broad daylight.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
In the words of Damon Runyon, the bard of gambling lowlifes, “Mr. Bert Bell does not get out of bed in time for daylight games.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Three narrow, dark tunnels along the way throttle speeds because of the sudden contrasts from broad daylight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
It was broad daylight by the time they made it back to the intermediate airfield.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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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 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 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
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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