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meme

[meem] / mim /
NOUN
cultural item repeatedly transmitted
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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

We might also consider completely removing the term ultra because it is weirdly emotional and sounds more like a meme than science.

From Slate Jul. 12, 2026

He said the messages were "mostly a big meme".

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

Studios have become fixated on hunting down every short film, internet meme and indie video game with the potential to “put something new and fresh on the screen,” Lee said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Jontay sent me a message with a meme of one of the African princesses from the Black Panther movie.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

Johanns Rogers, a social-media marketer in Colombo, Sri Lanka, closely follows British politics and first encountered Gough through memes shared by friends.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Burnham's exploits online have already brought mockery and launched a thousand memes.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Clips from the film, such as Matt Damon's Odysseus tied to the mast of his ship while listening to the sirens' song, have quickly become fodder for social media memes.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

The prime minister's videos, intended to quell anger, have been turned into jokes and memes.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Many of the silliest ambiguities in the Internet memes come from newspaper headlines and magazine tag lines precisely because they have been stripped of all punctuation.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

“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

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

“We saw it getting memed all over the place and loved it and certainly tried to lean into that,” Cassidy says.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 2, 2025

But it should come as no surprise that the restaurant has memed itself back to life.

From Slate Nov. 30, 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’re going to be thinking and talking and writing and social media-ing and memeing about it together.

From The Verge Apr. 25, 2019

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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