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caption

[kap-shuhn] / ˈkæp ʃən /
NOUN
heading; short description
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Bryan Johnson, the entrepreneur known for his extreme reverse-aging quest, shared a video of himself in a white hazmat suit with a caption that read: “We found mold in my gym.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

They announced the pregnancy in March on their Instagram accounts, hinting that the future baby could share a matching name, with the photo carousel’s caption: “What’s better than two Taylor Lautners?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Another caption explains that: “Jewellery and equipment in the graves of many wealthy and aristocratic women reflect the complex roles these women had.”

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

"Welcome to the world, River. Our little bit of hope," the caption said.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

In one, a young Joseph Mobutu looks out imploringly above a caption declaring his position in jeopardy.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Companies usually send him weekly briefings with assigned scripts, visual “hooks” to grab viewers’ attention, and captions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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

Others came up with captions including "Don't Look Up," a reference to the 2021 film starring Leonardo Di Caprio parodying societal apathy to the climate crisis.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 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

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 Wednesday, Crowley posted a chummy-looking photo of a breakfast meeting that included Hong and was captioned “Wisconsin Democrats are united.”

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

“The movement has begun,” Greene captioned the picture.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

On Tumblr, I captioned the picture: “The Khalil I know was afraid of animals.”

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

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

"Closed captioning is not just a workaround; it's a method of preserving the integrity of both visual and auditory storytelling for diverse audiences," says Prof Alexander.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025

We’ll watch a movie and literally just be captioning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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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