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snapshot

[snap-shot] / ˈsnæpˌʃɒt /
NOUN
photograph
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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But the monthly snapshot looks very different elsewhere.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

The figures are the last official snapshot of the jobs market before Chancellor John Healey presents his first Budget next week.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Prediction markets also measure expectations, and bettors can repeat the same bet multiple times, while polls attempt a snapshot of the entire population.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Here is a snapshot of why life in California is so expensive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

When I unfolded the letter, a small snapshot fell onto my desk.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda

Taken together, they provide something like a sequence of snapshots, allowing researchers to reconstruct how gas dispersal changes as systems grow older.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

His gaze shifts past snapshots he once documented of historical taut moments in Los Angeles like the 1966 Sunset Strip riots of West Hollywood or the 1970 Chicano Moratorium in Boyle Heights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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

Styx, from that day, lives in my mind like a series of snapshots.

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

But does he want specially to be snapshotted by all the journalists ~prostratus in horto~?

From Manalive 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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