On the day vs at the day

'On the day' is the proper English phrasing. 'At the day' is not a common or correct construction in English. 'On the day' is used to refer to a specific day when something happens or is planned.

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On the day

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

Use 'on the day' to refer to a specific day when something happens or is planned, such as an event, appointment, or occurrence.

Examples:

On the day of the wedding, the weather was perfect.
We will meet at the park on the day of the festival.
On the day of the exam, I was feeling nervous.
She received the award on the day of her retirement.
On the day of his birthday, he received many gifts.

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On the day of the crash, we argued.
On the day he received his sailing papers... Jim's class proved it was shipshape.
On the day that Kana disappeared...
On the day of my husband's passing.
On the day of your daughter's wedding.
On the day she's found dead in it.
On the day he presented it, I congratulated him.
On the day Owen died, Greg knew the routine.
On the day Sergeant Kelsey Blake was shot, you...
On the day of the scheduled meeting, I tried...
On the day my father promised to return... my mother started waiting at dawn.
On the day the letters were sent, he had pick-ups in Thame, Kidlington...
On the day! took control.
On the day she left, she must have done something.
On the day of the concert, Clara and Frank disappear.
On the day of Curtis's funeral Atlantic Records closed their offices.
On the day that Robin Williams committed suicide, people flooded hotlines all over this country.
On the day he was killed, Buckley did something unusual.
On the day before egg retrieval, the culture medium is prepared.
On the day before Pearl Harbor the Farmer family Watanabe is slit ritually.

at the day

This phrase is not correct in English.

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So, we saw the bodies at the day care.
If you want me running around asking after children, I would loved to, but I would have to give up overtime and my granddaughter just chipped a tooth on another girl at the day care.
Right, but Zola is at the day care here when we pick her up.
It's better than handing out juice boxes at the day care center.
Your students at the day center.
It gives you a new way of looking at the day.
If you forget to take Gliolan This medicine is given once only at the day of surgery, 2-4 hours before start of anesthesia.
This is pitched into the future from 1946, looking at the day all American families have them.
After a few days, she leaves her children at the day nursery.
Travellers aged under 16 years at the day of departure
Thank you. I've placed you on the guest list at the day spa.
For contracts already signed, the remaining duration of the existing contract at the day of closure of the call must be at least 18 months.
Persons aged from 67 years at the day of departure,
Following the administration of a double dose of vaccine, no side-effects other than those described under 4.6 have been observed except for some depression at the day of vaccination
My new friend, Kevin Doyle, showed me how you could leverage two and a half times your cash at the day trading firm.
At your times they were still at the day schedule!
Does he think he's working the front desk at the day spa?
"Then a couple of hours would be spent removing his make-up at the day's end, and he would require a rubdown after stomping around all day with those weights on his shoes."
He convinced himself that he was seeing networks of straight lines on Mars, which he thought were canals, what was the big news at the day with the Panama canal, that's what great planetary civilisations do, they build canals.
(c) verify that the register of animals in the circus referred to in Article 4(3)(b) is up to date and complete at the day of the inspection;

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