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caption

[kap-shuhn] / ˈkæp ʃən /
NOUN
heading; short description
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“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

A few months after the premiere, Holland marked Zendaya's birthday by posting a selfie from the set, alongside the caption: "My MJ, have the happiest of birthdays. Gimme a call when your up xxx."

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

On Tuesday morning, Beer posted several photos of the two of them together, along with a caption that provided a significant relationship status update.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

A caption alongside it referred to the creature as "Jimothy the raccoon with short spine syndrome".

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

He’s holding up peace fingers with the caption #MovingOn.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

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

Wormald often shared photos of Bennett on his Instagram with loving captions.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 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

Sports reporting could be generated from box scores, financial reporting from ticker data and movie reviews from captions.

From Salon Apr. 23, 2026

In the few newspaper photographs in which she appeared, always with her husband, the captions read: Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Westing.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

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

“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

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 the Renaissance book of acting, this grimace of a smile might be captioned, The lady is caught in a smile she cannot escape.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

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

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 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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