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The U.S. national team and Washington Spirit player posted a video later Wednesday morning on TikTok that showed her inside a gym with the caption, “Yes, I’m at training now.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Instead, we cut to rehearsals for the comeback tour, with a caption informing us the brothers "didn't speak for 15 years", and an implication that all the wounds have been miraculously healed.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Some carried flags or wore T-shirts featuring Mladic in uniform with the caption, "Serbian Hero".
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
“It might be the way that the title is written on a YouTube video, or the caption of the YouTube video,” Jeffries said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The newsreel, as shown in the movie houses, opened with a caption which said, "The family of Frank B. Gilbreth, time-saver, eats dinner."
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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The captions aren’t meant to be read by users, exactly, but instead picked up by keyword-trained algorithms that surface the post on your feed.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
Wormald often shared photos of Bennett on his Instagram with loving captions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
A big corner of the internet has been singing and dancing to those lyrics over the last few weeks, with the red, white and blue of Puerto's flag emoji proudly sprinkled all over captions.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Some videos make it onto Brovdi's social media accounts -- where he is followed by hundreds of thousands -- with cartoony music and mocking captions.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
He slammed the magazine down and glared at it as I said of course I knew he was the youngest, and the magazine did the captions, not me.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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On Wednesday, Crowley posted a chummy-looking photo of a breakfast meeting that included Hong and was captioned “Wisconsin Democrats are united.”
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
“The movement has begun,” Greene captioned the picture.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
“Every single day you are pushed to your absolute physical and mental limits to master the profession of arms,” he said in a video, captioned “The High-T Department of War,” announcing the initiative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He posts selfies using the Shrek filter, captioned "selfie with my twin".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
On Tumblr, I captioned the picture: “The Khalil I know was afraid of animals.”
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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Lily Tomlin, Parton's co-star in the 1980 film "9 to 5" posted a black and white picture of the two of them decades earlier, captioning it simply: "No words".
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
The book’s captioning about the white organdy costume Graham designed for herself, currently displayed in the library, notes that its inspiration was the “night-blooming Cereus” flower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
“Such information must be provided not only through captioning but also in American Sign Language.”
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2025
In an Instagram post on Boxing Day, The Vivienne put up a series of photos, captioning it: "24' highlights."
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2025
I wait until my parents are in the den watching Saturday morning news—which is totally boring and has the worst closed captioning, by the way—and I snatch one of the bowls in a big hurry.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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