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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Florida executed Anthony Wainwright by lethal injection just after 6 p.m. ET for the 1994 rape and murder of 23-year-old Carmen Gayheart, a married mother of two and nursing student who was kidnapped in broad daylight in a grocery store parking lot.
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 12 June 2025
The paintings had been missing from the museum’s walls since March 1985, when they were snatched in broad daylight.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2025
In 1337, a priest named John Forde walked down a busy street in London where he was ambushed and killed in broad daylight as crowds milled about.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 9 June 2025
Yolo County prosecutors have charged a man with murder in the shooting of a 16-year-old Sacramento boy killed last week in what police have called a drug deal gone bad in broad daylight at a West Sacramento park.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 5 May 2025
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Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 12 June 2025
The paintings had been missing from the museum’s walls since March 1985, when they were snatched in broad daylight.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2025
In 1337, a priest named John Forde walked down a busy street in London where he was ambushed and killed in broad daylight as crowds milled about.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 9 June 2025
Yolo County prosecutors have charged a man with murder in the shooting of a 16-year-old Sacramento boy killed last week in what police have called a drug deal gone bad in broad daylight at a West Sacramento park.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 5 May 2025
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“In broad daylight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20broad%20daylight. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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