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caption

[kap-shuhn] / ˈkæp ʃən /
NOUN
heading; short description
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Swedish giant Ikea even got involved, posting photos of its rattan furniture on Instagram in a nod to the film, with the caption “husband material”.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

"Don't wait until everybody is scrambling. Prepare before you need it," says the caption of a Facebook video viewed more than 161,000 times under the hashtags #Russia and #plague.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Excuse me I must correct the record on this slander,” he wrote in the caption.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

Wang posted the clip on X with the caption: “it’s ok sarah muse is thinking about you too.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The next slide showed a blowup of the caption underneath the photograph.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

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

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

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

It also had beautiful illustrations and captions that tried to capture what it meant to be a Pepette.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

Teilz captioned her repost: “Jared Leto was a creep then..still a creep now, going on 15+ years of being Hollywood’s most persistent predator,” according to the BBC documentary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Madonna captioned a photo, "If your dance floor feels dead, maybe you're playing the wrong music."

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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

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

"Closed captioning is not just a workaround; it's a method of preserving the integrity of both visual and auditory storytelling for diverse audiences," says Prof Alexander.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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. 11, 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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