Materialized Views query without refresh?

Hello Listers,

Our database has some materialized views, which are set 'refresh forced'.
In discussion I was asked whether it was possible to query the view without it doing the refresh process, so that the snapshot would not be refreshed.=20
I had to answer that I was not certain this was possible, does anyone know if this is possible??

Many Thanks
Denham

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