snapshot

Example Sentences

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Any stock screen is only a snapshot, meant to help you with your own research through which you can form your own opinion about a potential investment.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

For now, February’s retail figures stand as a snapshot of an economy that was briefly gathering strength, before war reared its head.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

U.S. jobs data, including the nonfarm payrolls report for March, will offer a snapshot of the jobs market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

A recent “point in time” count, as they’re called, the famously incomplete snapshot of how many people are homeless in a city on a given night, clocked the city’s homeless population at 2,500.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

In the only photograph I had of her, a snapshot, she squinted blurrily at the camera, one hand on the Cyclone fence and the other on my father’s new riding lawn mower.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt