snapshot
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Polaris’s earnings report this week provided a snapshot of a company that is turning around its operations as it continues to face external challenges from tariffs and inflationary pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
But the monthly snapshot looks very different elsewhere.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
The figures are the last official snapshot of the jobs market before Chancellor John Healey presents his first Budget next week.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Prediction markets also measure expectations, and bettors can repeat the same bet multiple times, while polls attempt a snapshot of the entire population.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
The ACD organization chart was a snapshot of two decades of change at Langley.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Time has now transformed the pictures from informal snapshots of an underground scene into historical documents.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
His gaze shifts past snapshots he once documented of historical taut moments in Los Angeles like the 1966 Sunset Strip riots of West Hollywood or the 1970 Chicano Moratorium in Boyle Heights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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
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
Styx, from that day, lives in my mind like a series of snapshots.
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
We raced our car along the beach, got out and snapshotted one another, admired the views, and cut up generally like a gang of boys let loose from school.
From On the Fringe of the Great Fight by George G. (George Gallie) Nasmith
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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