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plural of caption
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an explanation or description accompanying a pictorial illustration for the school yearbook, funny captions were written for snapshots showing a typical day at school

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a word or series of words often in larger letters placed at the beginning of a passage or at the top of a page in order to introduce or categorize the textbook features cleverly worded captions to capture the reader's attention

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verb

present tense third-person singular of caption

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Noun
  • But the award placed the book at the center of a fierce debate about literary translations.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
  • This can include virtual assistants, language translations, content generation and much more.
    Alok Kulkarni, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Vote for the best Ed has covered pop music for The Republic since 2007, reviewing festivals and concerts, interviewing legends, covering the local scene and more.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Rock and roll wasn’t really built to grow old, and most late-career albums from even the greatest legends get a pat on the shoulder at best and calls for retirement at worst.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Around the Table A round-up of the most important HR headlines.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The Menendez brothers were convicted of murder in the Nineties in a trial that made headlines for months, both for the stakes of the Menendez family’s money and the violent nature of the murders.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Captions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/captions. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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