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snapshot

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


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I emailed a snapshot of the damage to Rob Bacharach, a Charlotte, N.C.–based certified financial planner my family has used for years, to look over the numbers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

These will give an up-to-date snapshot of how companies are faring given the recent spike in oil prices, which was a key factor prompting the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates at its recent meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Overall, they provide the biggest global snapshot of education systems and an independent view of how teenagers are performing compared with their peers in other countries, so it is a relative measure.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

And his fiery temper, igniting at every possible moment with his older and more accommodating bandmates, turns this snapshot of history into genuine tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Santa paused to give the snapshot a moist kiss.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

However, the SSA currently does not provide the same detailed, real-time metrics as it did in the past, instead providing only snapshots of its performance, which makes it difficult to verify the improvements, critics said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

“If a phone call is intimate and your conversations on a regular basis are snapshots of your face making funny images, then the idea of going into deep intimacy must be absolutely terrifying.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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

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

"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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