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caption

[kap-shuhn] / ˈkæp ʃən /
NOUN
heading; short description
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The caption said her candle collection on QVC was “perfect for Halloween.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 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

The caption of the video, which was posted on the company’s social media pages, read: “Behold, the Nikola One in motion.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

“A big hug to all the friends, neighbors, teachers, and people who have made it such a wonderful place to raise our family,” she wrote in an Instagram caption.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

There was a caption under Sissy’s picture: “Widow of heroic fire fighter.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Adhwaryu says artists may soften captions, avoid certain subjects or think twice before submitting a cartoon.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

“I have to put the closed captions on so I can see what’s happening on the screen,” the 53-year-old realtor and attorney said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The combination of text and image recurs throughout Lynch’s paintings as well, where captions often make distressing narratives explicit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

And, yes, lengthy, instructive captions and special hashtags still help boost posts.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

He slammed the magazine down and glared at it as I said of course I knew he was the youngest, and the magazine did the captions, not me.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

“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

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

The front page of the Times carries a photo of Earl Spencer, captioned "I don't hear denial from the King".

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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

On Facebook, he posted a picture Ifemelu had taken of him standing on the verandah with Ranyinudo’s cousins, and he captioned it: No lions yet to eat me, folks.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

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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