screenshot

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noun

screen·shot ˈskrēn-ˌshät

: an image that shows the contents of a computer display

screenshot

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verb

screenshotted; screenshotting; screenshots

transitive verb

: to capture a screenshot of (an image on a computer display)

"Amazing … Can you screenshot that and send it to me?"—

Laura Loomer

… while you can prevent someone from forwarding an email, you can't stop them from screenshotting it and sending the image on.—

Jon Porter

The White House quickly deleted the tweet, but … somebody managed to screenshot it first.—

Sophie Lloyd

Examples of screenshot in a Sentence

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Noun

Last week, Canadian writer Sarah Hagi took to X (formerly Twitter) to share several screenshots of X posts by Gascón, which were later verified by Variety. —

Abby Monteil, Them, 4 Feb. 2025 The class-action lawsuit, filed anonymously by the agents Tuesday afternoon in D.C. federal court, includes screenshots showing a survey that was sent this week about their actions related to the Jan. 6 cases. —

Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2025

Verb

And then Teeny would screenshot tweets and translate them into something an offline 33-year-old grandma would understand. —

Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024 Ahead, see top stylists' and colorists' favorite takes on red brown hair color, and get ready to screenshot. —

Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for screenshot