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caption

[kap-shuhn] / ˈkæp ʃən /
NOUN
heading; short description
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She posted a photograph of her young sons holding a baby scan with the caption: "Baby Brooksbank due 2026!"

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

“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

Maximilien, who is studying in Singapore, posted the video of himself licking the straw on Instagram with the caption "city is not safe".

From BBC Jul. 30, 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

The caption read: Mount Carmel Missionary Circle prepares a bake sale to raise funds for Briggs v.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

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

The hook, "you can use my lyrics as your captions", is a delectably scathing riposte to a musician who sniped her style.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

The new display features a stark image by White House photographer Daniel Torok with minimal context, a contrast to other presidents’ portraits, which still include fuller biographical captions.

From Salon Feb. 16, 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

He posts selfies using the Shrek filter, captioned "selfie with my twin".

From BBC Jul. 11, 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

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

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

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

“Such information must be provided not only through captioning but also in American Sign Language.”

From Salon Jul. 6, 2025

This may be an effort to mitigate the audience’s urge to divide attention between second screens or to capitalize on the mainstreaming of closed captioning in streaming content.

From Salon Jan. 6, 2025

In an Instagram post on Boxing Day, The Vivienne put up a series of photos, captioning it: "24' highlights."

From BBC Jan. 5, 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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