by night
idiom
: at night : during the night
New York by night is very different from New York by day.
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Then by night, partly cloudy with a low near 39.
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Doris Alvarez Cea, Florida Times-Union, 2 Feb. 2026
Upstairs, The Living Room opens onto a High Line terrace, calm by day, glitzy lounge-like by night.
—Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
The same goes for other entities pretending to engage in charity by day, while sponsoring terror by night.
—Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2026
But by night five or six, as the place grew more familiar to them, the cells had stabilized to fire in coordination with precise directions and did not change depending on where the animal was on the island.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Jan. 2026
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Doris Alvarez Cea, Florida Times-Union, 2 Feb. 2026
Upstairs, The Living Room opens onto a High Line terrace, calm by day, glitzy lounge-like by night.
—Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
The same goes for other entities pretending to engage in charity by day, while sponsoring terror by night.
—Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2026
But by night five or six, as the place grew more familiar to them, the cells had stabilized to fire in coordination with precise directions and did not change depending on where the animal was on the island.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Jan. 2026
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“By night.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20night. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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