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

The trio showed up at New York Drive and Sinaloa Avenue after a neighbor texted a screenshot of the Pasadena Facebook post. —

Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025 Other versions showed the bar celebrating a 2021 clip of President Joe Biden tripping up a flight of stairs and a screenshot of Trump's 2023 mugshot. —

Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 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