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One Instagram Reel shows a film crew capturing a giant wave flattening a model city with the caption, “No CGI. No compositing. Just a hand-built miniature Miami and a 40-foot wave tank.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
The caption said her candle collection on QVC was “perfect for Halloween.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
In a separate post, he shared a photo of Downer and her dog, Rex, and wrote in the caption that his sister was very attached to the dog and had last been seen in Koreatown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 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
Annie would simply write a caption on the back.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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Adhwaryu says artists may soften captions, avoid certain subjects or think twice before submitting a cartoon.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
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
Wormald often shared photos of Bennett on his Instagram with loving captions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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
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“I haven’t read a review of anything aimed at me or my peers in 15 years,” Waititi captioned the post.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Reflecting this softer and more mainstream meaning, British Vogue captioned their photo of Heated Rivalry actor Hudson Williams arriving at the 2026 Golden Globes as him "mogging at the Golden Globes".
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The country star shared his diagnosis in a video posted Tuesday to Instagram captioned “A little health update.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
In photos of the Bahamas celebration reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, guests posed under a heart, and one guest captioned her post “the wedding of the century.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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
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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
We’ll watch a movie and literally just be captioning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025
“Such information must be provided not only through captioning but also in American Sign Language.”
From Salon ● Jul. 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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