by night
idiom
: at night : during the night
New York by night is very different from New York by day.
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But after her best friend’s death, getting dumped, and her father’s fall from grace as the local sheriff, Veronica is a high school outsider by day and a private detective by night.
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James Mercadante, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Dad’s grandfather had been a cabinetmaker by day and a socialist revolutionary by night.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
The spacious downstairs area is hyper canine-friendly, with visitors and locals congregating at communal tables and on couches for coffee and laptop hours by day and cocktail service by night.
—Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Professor by night, park ranger by day, protector of sea turtles always.
—Taylor Hagood, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
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James Mercadante, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Dad’s grandfather had been a cabinetmaker by day and a socialist revolutionary by night.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
The spacious downstairs area is hyper canine-friendly, with visitors and locals congregating at communal tables and on couches for coffee and laptop hours by day and cocktail service by night.
—Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Professor by night, park ranger by day, protector of sea turtles always.
—Taylor Hagood, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
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“By night.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20night. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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