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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
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
Elsewhere, Burnham is captured standing side-by-side with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Portsmouth on Monday, under the caption "Brothers in arms".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 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
The caption under the picture says: Elected by the people, unpaid for their services, and open to public criticism, board members must make the tough decisions.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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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
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
Sports reporting could be generated from box scores, financial reporting from ticker data and movie reviews from captions.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026
They added they trusted their audience to use "common sense" but indicated the videos were fake in their captions.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
I stared, trying to grasp the point of the picture and the captions, wondering why it all seemed so strange and yet familiar.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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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
Madonna captioned a photo, "If your dance floor feels dead, maybe you're playing the wrong music."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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
“Looks like Phoenix is moving into the doggy mansion #CutesieCrew #SlivingMom,” Hilton captioned the post.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
On Tumblr, I captioned the picture: “The Khalil I know was afraid of animals.”
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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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
"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
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 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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