as in mind
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 daylights
But that’s not stopping Nicotero from doing all within his power to scare the living daylights out of his contestants.
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Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 18 Nov. 2025
Playing on parental fears, The Babadook has been scaring the daylights out of us for a solid decade now.
—Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 18 Nov. 2025
Playing on parental fears, The Babadook has been scaring the daylights out of us for a solid decade now.
—Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for daylights
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The brainchild of Chris Roberts, the mind behind Wing Commander and Freelancer, Star Citizen is probably the most ambitious ongoing project in video games, having raised nearly one billion dollars in funding as of this writing.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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But for the mother-daughter pair, their minds were on Minneapolis and how federal agents have handled immigration enforcement.—
John Lauritsen,
CBS News,
30 Jan. 2026
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Surprised, the team performed a sanity check—the researchers calculated heritability in the traditional way for twins born between 1900 and 1935, an era when rapid medical advances steadily curtailed premature death.—
Cody Cottier,
Scientific American,
29 Jan. 2026
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Indeed, accepting its finitude is a crucial step toward sanity, freedom, and happiness.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Daylights.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daylights. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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