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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
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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
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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
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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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