as in photo
a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera
fans excitedly took snapshots of the rock star as he dashed into the hotel
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Realized in collaboration with the legacy earthenware atelier Gien, the 17-piece collection reinterprets a clover motif spotted in a black-and-white snapshot.
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Mel Studach, Architectural Digest, 21 Jan. 2025
Shadowed Craters The flyby images, all black-and-white 1024x1024 pixel snapshots, come from two M-CAM monitoring cameras on BepiColombo that are mostly there to monitor the spacecraft's solar panels, antenna and magnetometer boom.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Through snapshots of their life together — falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family — a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2025
The final decisions on these players have not taken place yet, and input from a new defensive coordinator will weigh into final opinions, but this is a snapshot of the current trending direction.
—Paul Dehner Jr., The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
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Mel Studach, Architectural Digest, 21 Jan. 2025
Shadowed Craters The flyby images, all black-and-white 1024x1024 pixel snapshots, come from two M-CAM monitoring cameras on BepiColombo that are mostly there to monitor the spacecraft's solar panels, antenna and magnetometer boom.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Through snapshots of their life together — falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family — a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2025
The final decisions on these players have not taken place yet, and input from a new defensive coordinator will weigh into final opinions, but this is a snapshot of the current trending direction.
—Paul Dehner Jr., The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
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The woman says she was eventually permitted to use her cell phone and text family members, who sent her a photo of her Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB), and she was then allowed to leave, Hatathlie said.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN,
27 Jan. 2025
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In honor of the official kickoff of football season in August 2024, Patrick's mom, Randi Mahomes, shared a rare throwback photo of her and Brittany sitting in the bleachers during one of the quarterback's high school games in Texas.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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This black-and-white photograph is of students in a classroom at Naperville High School in the late 1920s, only about a decade after the school was established in 1916.—
Naperville Sun,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Jan. 2025
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This photograph taken in Davos on January 22, 2025 shows the logo of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
23 Jan. 2025
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In a world where every social media pic is photo-tuned to the point of abstraction, of course there’s a facility that exists just for young people to manufacture false impressions of their own lives.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2025
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Brown sees work on popcorn franchise pics as akin to estate planning for actors.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Snapshot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snapshot. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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