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meme

[meem] / mim /
NOUN
cultural item repeatedly transmitted
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By then, it had already become something of a meme.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

On election night, when Bass was starting to trail Raman in the vote count, Montemayor posted the meme again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

On Tuesday night, Kornacki inspired a meme simply by being captured on his new network’s Kornacki Cam as he walked down a hall.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026

Plus, Kylian Mbappé loses major sponsorships in China after laughing at a meme.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

And Em’s dad reminded Bridge of Em’s mom—he watched reality TV and always knew what meme was going around.

From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead

The nickname has also made Mbappé the subject of many memes online.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

On social media, the gleeful Portuguese-language memes escaped containment.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

The movie teaser, dropped at the same time as the Telluride debut, was instantly viral, spawning memes of Holmes and Fielder locking eyes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

But it’s Holmes, with a mien and manner that’s spawning yet another round of memes and Halloween costumes, who’s the main draw.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

I have remained heavily involved in computing science, investigating and maintaining complex networks and studying everything from memes to artificial intelligence.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

“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

On Twitter, TikTok, Discord, wherever people gather to laugh through despair, people memed his death.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 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

None of that has stopped Reddit and other corners of the web from celebrating and memeing the issue.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

“The internet is a very vibrant place, and I think a lot of the memeing and a lot of the nontraditional creativity that goes on is a good thing,” says Rose.

From The Verge ● Dec. 16, 2017

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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