day and night
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In vast warehouses at the Kamoa copper mine in the southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, mountains of reddish rocks pile up as the machines grind away day and night.
From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026
"All I did was cry and sob the whole day and night," Alia recalls.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
In the New Yorker, the writer Lawrence Weschler rhapsodized about the soft glow in the air here, day and night.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
“The campaign to glorify him,” wrote one biographer in 1988, “has surpassed fanatic religious fervor. The North Korean ‘sun of the nation’ shines both day and night, and it is hard to escape his ubiquity.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
The King gets sick, all the wives would be letting their hair go and eating sweets day and night to wreck their figures.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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