snapshot
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The latest snapshot of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification projects that more than four million children aged six months to five years old will need treatment for acute malnutrition next year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Here is a snapshot of why life in California is so expensive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
A more direct snapshot of the past six years also shows things are improving.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Yeah, those are just polls and they only offer you a vague snapshot in time.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
The one that she hit with the snapshot joke and embarrassed in front of everybody.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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So I had to kind of do it in snapshots of different periods of my life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
But these songs are mostly character-driven rather than diaristic, offering brief snapshots of oddballs moving through a confusing landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Much of the previous work has relied on snapshots taken at a single point in time, focused mainly on school-age children, or lacked repeated measurements throughout early childhood.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 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
He thought with a flicker of regret of the snapshots his mother used to send him from Calcutta, of prospective brides who could sing and sew and season lentils without consulting a cookbook.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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
"I've snapshotted about everything else around here, but I never thought of the sky."
From The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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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