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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

Roberts announced the news via Instagram with a photo of the two beaming near a river and a caption that read, “putting this here before my mom tells everyone.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

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

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Motherwell were fined £5,000 for releasing a video with the caption: "As the world of football mocks our game, we simply have to draw a line in the sand and shift the focus."

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

The newsreel, as shown in the movie houses, opened with a caption which said, "The family of Frank B. Gilbreth, time-saver, eats dinner."

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 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

Follow-up songs like Ghost and Pillow became actual Instagram captions, and Wolf gained enough support to sell out her first tour in February 2022.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

He got down everybody’s name, just in case, so he’d have them for the captions.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes

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

From BBC Jul. 24, 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

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

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

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

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

“For a long time, captions have been made by hearing people,” says Stern, who collaborated with d/Deaf/hard-of-hearing artist and filmmaker Alison O’Daniel, whose 2023 documentary “The Tuba Thieves” reimagined closed captioning as a descriptive playground.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 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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