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as in sunrise
the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance
daylight was just breaking when we stumbled out of bed
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as in daytime
the hours of light between one night and the next
there isn't a lot of daylight left, so we'd better get home soon
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as in sanity
daylights plural
the normal or healthy condition of the mental abilities
nearly terrified the daylights out of him with that scream
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Recent Examples of daylight
The daylight hours will be mainly dry.
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Michael Autovino, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Not all states observe daylight saving time.
—Cooper Worth, Des Moines Register, 10 Feb. 2026
Security camera video captured a masked intruder on June 5, 2021, enter the couple’s home during daylight and leave hours later after sunset.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 10 Feb. 2026
The Uniform Time Act of 1966 established specific dates for the start of daylight saving time.
—Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 8 Feb. 2026
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Michael Autovino, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Not all states observe daylight saving time.
—Cooper Worth, Des Moines Register, 10 Feb. 2026
Security camera video captured a masked intruder on June 5, 2021, enter the couple’s home during daylight and leave hours later after sunset.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 10 Feb. 2026
The Uniform Time Act of 1966 established specific dates for the start of daylight saving time.
—Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 8 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for daylight
Noun
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Before sunrise, dozens of people were in line outside the court building to secure a seat in the courtroom.—
Kanis Leung,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Castlereagh Reservoir is also nearby—kayaking at either sunset or sunrise is pretty special.—
Harriet Compston,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Meghan McCain is fed up with contemporary daytime talk shows.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Feb. 2026
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The late Dan Smith, a Vietnam veteran, old-school west Texas cowboy who died in his son’s arms, a moment Mike would relive for months through night terrors and daytime flashbacks.—
Andrew Callahan,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2026
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Voters must understand that the college affordability crisis was engineered by perverse incentives and that free-market reforms can help restore sanity to the system.—
Neetu Arnold,
Washington Post,
10 Feb. 2026
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Save your rosary beads — and your sanity — for whenever Sweden comes on the TV.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
7 Feb. 2026
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Kaley watched an average of four minutes and 9 seconds of videos recommended by YouTube’s autoplay feature per day, Li said.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Doyle says the lookout’s closure had cut business at Christina’s Cafe to three or four customers per day, killing her profit margin.—
Trista Kurniawan,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Naumov doesn’t enter with the same pressure as Malinin but has already exceeded expectations in his mind.—
Greg Rosenstein,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
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For the launch colorway, a vivid graphic may initially bring to mind heat maps with its application of blue, green, yellow and red — but the choice was actually made to invoke a temporal fold, a theoretical concept of bending spacetime to move faster than the speed of light.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Surprisingly, these essential building blocks of life likely originated in icy-cold, radioactive environments at the dawn of our solar system.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Feb. 2026
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At the dawn of deep learning, a little more than a dozen years ago, machines picked up how to distinguish a cat from a dog.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Chinese companies have excelled at rapid deployment in consumer-facing applications and integrating AI into industrial use, said Deepika Giri, head of AI research at market research firm IDC.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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At one point, the individual appears to tilt their head away from a doorbell camera, hold a flashlight in their mouth and attempt to cover the lens with a gloved hand and what looked like part of a plant pulled from the yard.—
Bradford Betz , Matt Finn,
FOXNews.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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On Tuesday morning, Russian planes dropped seven powerful glide bombs on Sloviansk, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, killing an 11-year-old girl and her mother, according to regional chief Vadym Filashkin.—
EMMA BURROWS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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The mother of three was first discovered missing when a fellow churchgoer missed her at morning services.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Daylight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daylight. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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