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The photos resurfaced two years ago, when Yamal’s father posted it online with the caption “The beginning of two legends.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
On Thursday, the White House posted an AI-generated picture of a Blue Angel jet over a beach with people calmly looking skyward with the caption “It’s okay to love America.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Then the rapper Drake visited Chicago in the summer of 2023 and posted a photo of a bottle of the spirit on Instagram with the caption: “There’s no way Chicago enjoys this…”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The official Instagram account for the Belgium national team also appeared to mock the debacle, posting a picture of striker Romelu Lukaku cupping his ear with the caption "overturn this".
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
There was a 1997 newspaper mug shot of Lawrence’s son with a caption that said, WANTED.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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
The company is betting that the generation raised on a diet of YouTube channels and Instagram captions will also embrace the novel’s shorter sibling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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
If you had to speak English with running captions in your mind showing all the roots, all the way back to Indo-European, you’d fall off the bicycle.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
He posts selfies using the Shrek filter, captioned "selfie with my twin".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
She captioned the clip, “Do I want to RV? Yes, yes I do. I’ll bring the string lights and tea!!”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
In December, she posted a TikTok showing off an oversize crew neck and pajama-like black trousers, playfully captioned “putting the casual in business casual.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
“If you ever need to call on me you know what to do....WILSON!!!!,” he captioned his photo with Lynch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
On Facebook, he posted a picture Ifemelu had taken of him standing on the verandah with Ranyinudo’s cousins, and he captioned it: No lions yet to eat me, folks.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
Disney also offers sign-language interpreters, wheelchair and scooter rentals, assistive handheld captioning and video captioning on some rides, and dialogue and narration of scripts on others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 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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