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caption

[kap-shuhn] / ˈkæp ʃən /
NOUN
heading; short description
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In the caption of the post, she wrote that although she’d kept the news to herself for various reasons, she wanted to share her diagnosis.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

“A few peaceful moments from the hospital,” Pitt wrote in the caption.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 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

A caption alongside it referred to the creature as "Jimothy the raccoon with short spine syndrome".

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

One week after that ceremony in Rochester, New York, Time appeared on the stands with Ernests bright blue eyes staring out from the front cover over the caption “He creates and destroys.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Lines of dialogue are followed by explanatory glosses, like the captions beneath photographs, so that they cannot be misinterpreted.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 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

Sports reporting could be generated from box scores, financial reporting from ticker data and movie reviews from captions.

From Salon Apr. 23, 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

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

In April, Herbert posted a photo of them on Instagram and captioned it, “My world!”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

“Every single day you are pushed to your absolute physical and mental limits to master the profession of arms,” he said in a video, captioned “The High-T Department of War,” announcing the initiative.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

The Post-Intelligencer ran it under a picture of Joe captioned “Joe Rantz, The Eating Champion.”

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

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

From Salon Jul. 6, 2025

Disney also offers sign language interpreters, wheelchair and scooter rentals, assistive handheld captioning and video captioning on some rides, and dialogue and narration of scripts on others.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 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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