snapshot

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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

Still, as was the case with speed, these tests only represent a snapshot in time.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

That’s what my friend asked when I sent him a snapshot of my workday weirdness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Plus, Nvidia’s guidance “is a current snapshot only,” he said in a Tuesday note.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 17, 2026

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 percent of the Earth’s history.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson