by day
idiom
: during the day : in daylight
She's a student by day and a waitress at night.
The area looks a lot nicer by day.
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Pyles plays Nora Sutton, a mechanical engineering student by day who hangs with her Theta Epsilon Phi sisters by night.
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Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 5 Jan. 2026
Sunny skies by day often bring clear nightscapes after dark, so soak up the starry splendor on the Tucson Astro Trail, which links 12 area observatories and dark-sky parks.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 4 Jan. 2026
Holii’s case comes with compartments to separate pills by day or type.
—Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 2 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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Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 5 Jan. 2026
Sunny skies by day often bring clear nightscapes after dark, so soak up the starry splendor on the Tucson Astro Trail, which links 12 area observatories and dark-sky parks.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 4 Jan. 2026
Holii’s case comes with compartments to separate pills by day or type.
—Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 2 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 day.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20day. Accessed 7 Jan. 2026.
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