to the day
idiom
: to exactly a specified number of years
It's been 100 years to the day since their great discovery.
Soon after their wedding, almost a year to the day, they got divorced.
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Records from the weeks leading up to the day Méndez executed the agreement show a steady stream of text communications between the city attorney and lobbyist Melissa Tapanes, who represented developer Michael Stern.
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Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
After a trial that lasted less than a month, Simpson was found guilty of all charges on Oct. 3, 2008 – 13 years to the day after he was acquitted in his Los Angeles double murder trial.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2024
And this week on Face the Nation: Six months to the day Hamas attacked Israel, there is breaking military and diplomatic news in the conflict that has cost tens of thousands of lives.
—CBS News, 7 Apr. 2024
Scheffler had often lamented his putting in what – by his standards – had been a relative dry spell of almost a year to the day without a win on the PGA Tour, but the 27-year-old was near-faultless around the greens of a notoriously tricky course on Sunday.
—Jack Bantock, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024
The win was exactly 40 years to the day that Hendrick Motorsports ran its first NASCAR Cup race.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
Impressionism, the movement that forever marked the history of art, is now 150 years old, almost to the day.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Police were subsequently called to the day care facility and responded promptly.
—Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2024
Biden's remarks came five months to the day since Hamas' deadly terrorist attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, when the militant group killed 1,200 civilians and soldiers and took at least 200 more as hostages.
—Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
After a trial that lasted less than a month, Simpson was found guilty of all charges on Oct. 3, 2008 – 13 years to the day after he was acquitted in his Los Angeles double murder trial.
—Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2024
And this week on Face the Nation: Six months to the day Hamas attacked Israel, there is breaking military and diplomatic news in the conflict that has cost tens of thousands of lives.
—CBS News, 7 Apr. 2024
Scheffler had often lamented his putting in what – by his standards – had been a relative dry spell of almost a year to the day without a win on the PGA Tour, but the 27-year-old was near-faultless around the greens of a notoriously tricky course on Sunday.
—Jack Bantock, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024
The win was exactly 40 years to the day that Hendrick Motorsports ran its first NASCAR Cup race.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
Impressionism, the movement that forever marked the history of art, is now 150 years old, almost to the day.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Police were subsequently called to the day care facility and responded promptly.
—Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2024
Biden's remarks came five months to the day since Hamas' deadly terrorist attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, when the militant group killed 1,200 civilians and soldiers and took at least 200 more as hostages.
—Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
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