in broad daylight
idiom
: during the day when people and things can be easily seen rather than at night
The crime was committed in broad daylight.
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In a midday attack that has rattled a Bronx neighborhood, a 50-year-old career criminal with 19 prior arrests allegedly attempted to rape a 70-year-old woman in broad daylight—only to reportedly be tracked down and beaten by outraged local residents the next day.
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Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Both of these shootings occurred in broad daylight.
—Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2025
Tanzi was on death row for more than two decades for the 2000 murder of 49-year-old Janet Acosta, who was attacked in broad daylight on her lunch break, kidnapped, raped and strangled.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
She was whisked off the street in broad daylight by authorities in masks and plain clothes — and then to be detained and transferred with no charges is a major ramp-up of the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.
—Cate Martel, The Hill, 27 Mar. 2025
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Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Both of these shootings occurred in broad daylight.
—Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2025
Tanzi was on death row for more than two decades for the 2000 murder of 49-year-old Janet Acosta, who was attacked in broad daylight on her lunch break, kidnapped, raped and strangled.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
She was whisked off the street in broad daylight by authorities in masks and plain clothes — and then to be detained and transferred with no charges is a major ramp-up of the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.
—Cate Martel, The Hill, 27 Mar. 2025
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“In broad daylight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20broad%20daylight. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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