snapshot
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Best compared the 2024 investment portfolios that backed those annuities with a snapshot of a similar universe of portfolios in 2007.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
For now, February’s retail figures stand as a snapshot of an economy that was briefly gathering strength, before war reared its head.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
A recent “point in time” count, as they’re called, the famously incomplete snapshot of how many people are homeless in a city on a given night, clocked the city’s homeless population at 2,500.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
Still, as was the case with speed, these tests only represent a snapshot in time.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026
An old black- and-white snapshot, a baby in a swing, wide angle, nobody else in the picture.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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