snapshot
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However, the annual snapshot is seen as significantly undercounting the extent of the problem due to strict rules over how the data is collected.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Keep in mind that in the case of this particular fund, it is only a snapshot.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
The scene, which Günes said last took place two months ago, is a snapshot not from a stern theocracy ruled by capricious clerics, but from the capital of Europe’s largest economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Together, these molecules can provide a detailed snapshot of a person's current biological state.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
A woman was standing up taking a snapshot.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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
The SSA currently does not provide the same detailed, real-time metrics as it did in the past, providing only snapshots of its performance instead of running updated tabulations of caseloads, timings and backlogs, analysts said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“By not just showing snapshots of the place, but … making a composition out of it, they could see that all these things form together into an experience of one place,” Siegel said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
There are snapshots of us having a picnic in the park, posing in new outfits, and floating in a plastic kiddie pool.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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
Charmian and Claude had been snapshotted on the deck of the ship by a little army of journalists.
From The Way of Ambition by J. H. Gardner Soper
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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