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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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.
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Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
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Video obtained by 9 News Sydney showed the man dangling from the vessel in broad daylight as onlookers walked by.
—Angel Saunders, People.com, 21 May 2025
The two-minute trailer also gives us cryptic shots of Gandy entering a dark classroom of children, a car accident happening in broad daylight, and lots of screaming.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
Twenty times, stabbed her in broad daylight on a public street in front of witnesses and under the watch of surveillance cameras.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 16 May 2025
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Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
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Video obtained by 9 News Sydney showed the man dangling from the vessel in broad daylight as onlookers walked by.
—Angel Saunders, People.com, 21 May 2025
The two-minute trailer also gives us cryptic shots of Gandy entering a dark classroom of children, a car accident happening in broad daylight, and lots of screaming.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
Twenty times, stabbed her in broad daylight on a public street in front of witnesses and under the watch of surveillance cameras.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 16 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 6 Jun. 2025.
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