snapshot
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Those figures come from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances, the most reliable snapshot we have of what Americans actually hold.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
We checked in with Katherine for this latest snapshot of Wayfair’s earnings—and what big-ticket purchases may mean for U.S. consumers:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Together, these molecules can provide a detailed snapshot of a person's current biological state.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
And so it’s a neighborhood at war with itself, with some viewing Skid Row as one of the largest recovery centers in the country while others see a snapshot of social collapse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
On the screen was a snapshot of my face on the morning they had brought us into camp, but the text beside it wasn’t my history.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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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
ADI Predictstreet said it would periodically take snapshots of the rankings to determine winners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
They’re snapshots of what you did, why it mattered and how your beliefs influenced your actions.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
Both avatars looked Japanese, and they bore a striking resemblance to one another, like snapshots of the same young man taken five years apart.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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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
But it was not before Inglewood had seen an instantaneous picture so unique that he might well have snapshotted it with his everlasting camera.
From Manalive 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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