snapshot
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Together, these molecules can provide a detailed snapshot of a person's current biological state.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Son put his finger to his lips in the universal “shhh” sign and then did his patented camera celebration — click! — miming a snapshot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
All 50 states, five US territories such as Puerto Rico, plus an array of sporting and cultural organizations have made contributions to this collective national snapshot.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
The snapshot showed the couple with Prince William and his two elder children – who'd attended the show to celebrate William's 42nd birthday.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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
His instinct was to photograph, but he did not expect one of his lakeside snapshots to go around the world within hours.
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
ADI Predictstreet said it would periodically take snapshots of the rankings to determine winners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Francie showed the snapshots to a group of girls in the recreation room.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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 Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
The Chief of Police has just been here and left instructions that snapshotting is an invasion of private rights.
From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville
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