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on a nightly basis

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: every night
She asked me about it on a nightly basis.

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Kimmel is now back on the air and ridiculing Trump again on a nightly basis. Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025 But those who’ve watched the Blackhawks on a nightly basis know Spencer Knight has been masking some familiar defensive deficiencies. Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025 Trump officials say soldiers are necessary to protect federal personnel and an ICE facility in South Portland where demonstrators have protested on a nightly basis. Christopher Cann, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025 Research published in the Journal of Sleep Research in 2021 found that people who commonly woke up in the night and had trouble getting back to sleep on a nightly basis—effectively depriving themselves of restorative sleep—had a nearly 40% higher risk of developing dementia. Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 23 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for on a nightly basis

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“On a nightly basis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20a%20nightly%20basis. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.

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