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“First drafts DONE,” she wrote in the caption.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
"The French correction" is the Metro's headline, embedding a picture showing a row of Paris riot cops next to the caption "Formez vos batallions".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
“A big hug to all the friends, neighbors, teachers, and people who have made it such a wonderful place to raise our family,” she wrote in an Instagram caption.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
“There are no words to describe this feeling once again. What a blessing,” Cuoco wrote in her emoji-filled caption accompanying a slideshow of photos introducing their new baby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
The caption said the boy's name was Emmett Till.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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The central frieze’s action is explicated by Latin captions and framed by upper and lower borders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
And, yes, lengthy, instructive captions and special hashtags still help boost posts.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
One of the captions reads: "She was loved. She wanted to live. She should still be here."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Wormald often shared photos of Bennett on his Instagram with loving captions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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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“This is what they stole from us,” Musk captioned the computer-generated photo of his sci-fi fan fiction.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
Stewart had captioned her original Instagram photo: "My QVC candles are perfect for Halloween!!!"
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
“Last few months…. 10000000000/10,” she captioned an Instagram carousel of photos in August.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
“Thank you so much to everyone here who I connected with for this piece, and who shared great resources,” I captioned the post.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026
The Post-Intelligencer ran it under a picture of Joe captioned “Joe Rantz, The Eating Champion.”
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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
Two weeks ago, Delaney published a tight close-up photo of herself and Morgan with their faces nearly touching, captioning it “Pure love” with a red heart emoji and the hashtags #lucky and #grateful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 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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