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She posted a photograph of her young sons holding a baby scan with the caption: "Baby Brooksbank due 2026!"
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
“Gen X: We straight up raised ourselves,” reads the caption on one popular internet meme, a photo of an unhelmeted child on a rickety-looking bicycle popping a wheelie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The reel he posted later showed white smoke drifting across the street beneath a simple caption: "Delhi Police doesn't realise I'm from Jamuna Paar."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
“Your nervous system isn’t asking for perfection,” the caption read.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
It isn’t the kind of smile that would make it onto a card that says “Happy” in the caption.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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Others came up with captions including "Don't Look Up," a reference to the 2021 film starring Leonardo Di Caprio parodying societal apathy to the climate crisis.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Lines of dialogue are followed by explanatory glosses, like the captions beneath photographs, so that they cannot be misinterpreted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Follow-up songs like Ghost and Pillow became actual Instagram captions, and Wolf gained enough support to sell out her first tour in February 2022.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Much like ballet, kabuki necessitates precise choreographed actions: Not only does “Kokuho” provide generous samples of different kabuki pieces but also includes captions that list the title of the individual works and a brief synopsis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 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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“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
On Monday night, the former Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, Darren Jones, posted a picture on X of him having a beer, external, captioned "thank you and good night. See you September".
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The Instagram story of the two sharing their engagement was captioned: “The future Kessler’s. Let’s get y’all married!!!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Swift and Kelce announced their engagement last August in an Instagram post captioned, "Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married."
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
An old cartoon captioned “The PhD thesis” shows a little boy firing an arrow into the air, seeing where it lands, walking over to it, and painting a target around that spot.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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
While the initial live broadcast will use SDR quality with live captioning, a higher quality picture plus sweetened sounds and subtitles will be delivered when the on-demand version hits Netflix for rewatching.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
“For a long time, captions have been made by hearing people,” says Stern, who collaborated with d/Deaf/hard-of-hearing artist and filmmaker Alison O’Daniel, whose 2023 documentary “The Tuba Thieves” reimagined closed captioning as a descriptive playground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
This may be an effort to mitigate the audience’s urge to divide attention between second screens or to capitalize on the mainstreaming of closed captioning in streaming content.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2025
I consider captioning it with #EndDay, but I don’t need fake sympathetic “oh no, R.I.P!!!!” comments or trolls telling me to “Rest in Pieces!!!!”
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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