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 early 2007, Albany residents called local authorities with reports of typically nocturnal bats flying in broad daylight.
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Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2025
Created by Haas, in Countdown, when an officer with the Department of Homeland Security is murdered in broad daylight, LAPD detective Mark Meachum (Ackles), is recruited to a secret task force, alongside undercover agents from all branches of law enforcement, to investigate.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 28 May 2025
The series picks up following the murder of a Department of Homeland Security officer in broad daylight, which brings Ackles' Meachum into the folds of the task force.
—Julia Moore, People.com, 22 May 2025
At 27, Massey and another inmate broke out of a detention center in northern Louisiana in broad daylight by cutting and slipping under a chain-link fence in the exercise yard, Chief James Mardis of the Morehouse Parish Sheriff’s Office told CNN last week.
—Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
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Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2025
Created by Haas, in Countdown, when an officer with the Department of Homeland Security is murdered in broad daylight, LAPD detective Mark Meachum (Ackles), is recruited to a secret task force, alongside undercover agents from all branches of law enforcement, to investigate.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 28 May 2025
The series picks up following the murder of a Department of Homeland Security officer in broad daylight, which brings Ackles' Meachum into the folds of the task force.
—Julia Moore, People.com, 22 May 2025
At 27, Massey and another inmate broke out of a detention center in northern Louisiana in broad daylight by cutting and slipping under a chain-link fence in the exercise yard, Chief James Mardis of the Morehouse Parish Sheriff’s Office told CNN last week.
—Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 27 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 13 Jun. 2025.
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