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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
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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
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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
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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
“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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