snapshot
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Putting together a snapshot of a company’s quarterly performance can involve investigating errors or reporting problems at subsidiaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The latest snapshot of consumer prices, for instance, pointed to a small deceleration in inflation in July for the second month in a row.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Islington is a snapshot of a trend also playing out not only in inner London but also other parts of the world.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Together, these molecules can provide a detailed snapshot of a person's current biological state.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
I stuffed the snapshot back in my pocketbook.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
AFP photo editor Maximilien Lamy was on holiday with his partner and daughter last week when he took a series of snapshots of vacationers in fire-struck southwest France with his smartphone.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Archived snapshots of the websites for the girls' and boys' sections of the school – taken in the months before the attack - include the address of the site.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
But in this coastal enclave dubbed America’s Best-Preserved Puritan Town, those snapshots have lit a burning debate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
They’re snapshots of what you did, why it mattered and how your beliefs influenced your actions.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
Like a waterfall of snapshots, the memories splashed through my mind.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
The student survey indicating widespread opposition to the policy—released in February shortly after the grade proposal was publicized—was taken at an “unrepresentative moment” because it snapshotted students’ initial shock, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Users can choose which apps are used by the feature, and private mode on some browsers will not be snapshotted.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025
“I know sometimes things can be snapshotted in a certain way in a particular cultural moment,” said Hernandez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2024
Josh Kaplan explains this weird new surveillance technology that most people are still unaware of—especially those whose cars are being snapshotted.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2019
This clumsiness clings even to the photographs of public men, as they are snapshotted at public meetings.
From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Chief of Police has just been here and left instructions that snapshotting is an invasion of private rights.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
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