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Ramos revealed how the sculptures come to life, pulsating with emotion, as light sweeps through a cycle to mimic the day-to-night transition, from soft dawn gold, to midday clarity, to the dusk’s warmth, and into the retreat of night.—Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 Protests outside the Broadview facility continued midday Friday, with a handful of demonstrators holding up signs and cellphones toward a fence topped with barbed wire, video from the scene shows.—Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025 By midday, the heat was ungodly.—Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025 It’s been roughly 72 hours since Disney’s late-night nightmare started, and as of midday Friday in Hollywood, there’s still no word on when, or whether, Jimmy Kimmel will get his talk show back.—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for midday
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of midday was
before the 12th century
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