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meme

[meem] / mim /
NOUN
cultural item repeatedly transmitted
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In a self-critique of his own calls in a May Substack post, he admitted to being “a meme for the number of times I have called a crash.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 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

Until recently, those words belonged to Instagram comment sections, group chats and meme pages.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

It bothered Lacy, a serious artist who wrote with Kendrick Lamar and earned a Grammy nomination as a teenager in the R&B collective The Internet, suddenly thrust into living meme territory with “Bad Habit.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

The same meme makes the rounds every storm: “Tornado season PSA: Bras on, teeth in!”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

It was one of those memes that lasted a news cycle before the headlines faded.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

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

Footage of Cunningham coolly staring down and pointing mockingly at one such foe for 22 unflinching seconds following a scuffle last month went viral, launching countless memes.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

"Younger generations grow up with politics alongside their memes, their family pictures and their daily commutes."

From BBC Jul. 22, 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

He memed his way through his campaign and bragged about “bullying” Gonzales.

From Slate Mar. 9, 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

The three of you have been memed online for weeks.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 31, 2025

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

Rachel Greenspan, writer and social strategist, joins us once again to argue for discretion in memeing.

From Slate Jan. 16, 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

“As advocates of biohacking, that’s what we do. We advocate for the adoption of biohacking wherever possible, even if it means memeing the desired outcome.”

From The Verge Jun. 5, 2021

We might of been mistakenly memeing him in ...

From The Guardian Nov. 15, 2016

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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