by night
idiom
: at night : during the night
New York by night is very different from New York by day.
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Vancouver generated little of anything offensively, and by night’s end, had been hopelessly buried 5-0 on the scoreboard.
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Thomas Drance, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
The 27-year-old is working in procurement by day and DoorDash delivery by night to earn $6,500 for an engagement ring.
—Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
Pyles plays Nora Sutton, a mechanical engineering student by day who hangs with her Theta Epsilon Phi sisters by night.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 5 Jan. 2026
Highways, viaducts, giant interchanges, and a major Metro junction viciously mutilated São Paulo’s downtown in the 1960s and ’70s, demoting it from a popular residential area to a commercial transfer hub, overcrowded and polluted by day but forlorn by night.
—Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
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Thomas Drance, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
The 27-year-old is working in procurement by day and DoorDash delivery by night to earn $6,500 for an engagement ring.
—Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
Pyles plays Nora Sutton, a mechanical engineering student by day who hangs with her Theta Epsilon Phi sisters by night.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 5 Jan. 2026
Highways, viaducts, giant interchanges, and a major Metro junction viciously mutilated São Paulo’s downtown in the 1960s and ’70s, demoting it from a popular residential area to a commercial transfer hub, overcrowded and polluted by day but forlorn by night.
—Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
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“By night.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20night. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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