screenshot
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of screenshot
First recorded in 1980–85; screen ( def. ) + shot 1
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"I recorded myself with my phone, describing the incident, saying how frustrated I was about the lack of response, and included a screenshot of the message I'd received from police," she says.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
“Someone I had a date with sent me a text of a screenshot and was like, ‘Is this you?
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
"When my younger daughter told me about it on the phone, and then sent me a screenshot of the file, I was quite surprised," said Corinna, who asked that AFP not use her last name.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
The suit opens with a screenshot of an OpenAI blog post that says ChatGPT was built with safety in mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
Every single newsfeed seemed to be showing a screenshot of the Scoreboard.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
The Journal has reviewed nearly 20 recordings of Regan’s sales pitches, as well as videos and screenshots related to his operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
No fouls were called at that time, and screenshots and video from the incident quickly made their rounds on social media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Multiple traders on Reddit shared screenshots that showed them purchasing thousands of Wendy’s shares.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
Cormier then said he’d been “hacked or something” and asked who would believe something like that, while Eric Trump called the screenshots completely fake and AI-generated.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
And I guess I should be grateful he didn’t post one of his freaking screenshots.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
A longtime MMA reporter who says he saw the post before it vanished insisted it was real, writing that he and others had screenshotted it themselves.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
It has since been deleted, but was screenshotted by multiple outlets including the New York Post.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2025
It gets screenshotted and reposted by casual meme spreaders.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2024
Streamer Zach Bussey screenshotted the updated policy and tweeted it out on Tuesday.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
Though Twitter removed the spoof accounts that popped up after the Blue Verified launch fairly quickly, many had already been screenshotted and shared widely.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2022
He resorted to screenshotting her daily Chrome history and analyzing it with AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
“What we’re finding is they’re just screenshotting these photos from social media and using those.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024
However, content shared with your Circle is still subject to the platform’s community guidelines, and it also doesn’t stop other users from screenshotting your posts.
From The Verge ● Aug. 30, 2022
Imagine if Picasso was screenshotting everything, everybody could see it, like, “Eh, I don’t want to buy that painting.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
Still, anti-vaccine groups sidestep new rules by using coded language, or screenshotting posts from prominent influencers’ own websites and sharing them on the mainstream platforms.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
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