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Saving and archiving AI chat transcripts across platforms can create a searchable snapshot of a user’s work in progress and thinking process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 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
The trial was a snapshot of community attitudes in 1943, some of which shocked O’Brien as she researched her book.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The latest snapshot of consumer prices, for instance, pointed to a small deceleration in inflation in July for the second month in a row.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
It’s as though the name were a particularly unflattering snapshot of himself that makes him want to say in his defense, “That’s not really me.”
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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
The manuscript, which includes the daughter’s blurry Polaroid snapshots and postcards from their travels, chronicles the pair’s trials, adventures and conversations as they pursue Nanna’s past and their own futures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
AFP photo editor Maximilien Lamy was on holiday with his partner and daughter last week when he took a series of snapshots of vacationers in fire-struck southwest France with his smartphone.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Like a waterfall of snapshots, the memories splashed through my mind.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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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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