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meme

[meem] / mim /
NOUN
cultural item repeatedly transmitted
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That’s likely a relief for crypto bulls, but the comeback might say less about bitcoin’s revival than a marketwide return of risk appetite — from chip and software names to meme stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Pop star Pink, who is Jewish, reposted an anti-Macklemore meme and then her own message, explaining her criticism of the rapper's comments.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

It’s the use case for crypto, not speculative meme coins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Or, more likely, he’ll just post an AI meme declaring it so.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

He hadn’t intended for us to wither into desiccated husks in front of brightly lit screens that leeched away our summer days one meme at a time.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

All the memes and merch exist on the movie’s fringes.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Though the currency’s value was susceptible to the day’s memes, it ultimately required confidence only in code.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

He said both sides can have discussions "when the Americans stop doing memes" and start being serious.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

When Leonard once described himself as “a fun guy,” at a press conference, it was such an unlikely self-assessment that it spawned a wave of memes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Boaz thought of the memes he’d seen claiming that some actor was actually a time traveler, their doppelgänger found in a vintage photograph.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

“Time to meme like we have never memed before,” wrote Reddit user chance901.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

After Grimes and Musk split, he memed his way into being forced to buy Twitter for way too much money.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025

On Twitter, TikTok, Discord, wherever people gather to laugh through despair, people memed his death.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2025

By his own admission, it was a bold move, one that turned him into one of the most famously memed figures in India.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025

To no one’s surprise, “SNL” drilled in on Britt’s State of the Union response speech, which in only two days has been memed and parodied across TikTok and other social platforms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2024

As for the spoofing and memeing of the 60-second spot, Trotter said she and her colleagues just “can’t ignore it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2025

In 2020 Sen. Ed Markey fended off his primary challenger—a young Kennedy!—by memeing himself into winning the youth vote.

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2024

We said, 'No.' They didn't think of the impact that would have on how people would pick that up and start memeing it, and that's what happens with these things.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2022

“We advocate for the adoption of biohacking wherever possible, even if it means memeing the desired outcome” That is until they saw Gates’ comment about digital certificates on Reddit.

From The Verge ● Jun. 5, 2021

Beyoncé was horrified, Swift reportedly started bawling, and the internet began castigating and memeing Kanye relentlessly.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2015

And when watching the series, there is no question about the skill of the team members, so I was initially a little shocked at the eventual meming of the show.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2020

On the left, we spend our time calling out and shutting down, lolling and meming and dropping mics.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 1, 2017




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