captioning

verb

present participle of caption
as in tagging

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  1. tagging
  2. stamping
  3. labeling
  4. ticketing
  5. identifying
  6. earmarking
  7. marking
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  • In a series of TikTok videos made yesterday, North West debuted an exaggerated prosthetic chin and slick-black bob, tagging the Bad Girls star.
    — Isabella Albaig, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Startup Hamlet has parsed tens of thousands of city council meetings by scraping local governments’ video recordings, tagging comments as friendly or hostile to a potential project.
    — J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of tagging
Verb
  • When Louise would remember the show decades later, the audience was always so electric that the room exploded into stamping feet and pounding fists.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • All this suggests that stopping illicit distillation will mean finding new attacks before stamping them out.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of stamping
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  • Paide prefers to use simple file folders to organize her papers, and likes labeling those folders with sticky notes written with permanent markers.
    — Andee Tagle, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Last Thursday, the NYPD released photos of the victim and asked the public’s help finding her, labelling her a missing person.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of labeling
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  • Further ticketing information can be found at the band’s official website.
    — Sophie Williams, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2026
  • After initially plotting just two dates—one in New York and one in Los Angeles—the group doubled the number of shows in response to a ticketing glitch.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of ticketing
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  • Acoustic monitoring could therefore provide an additional layer of protection by identifying unusual mechanical behaviour that might otherwise go unnoticed during routine inspections.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
  • But Rodrigues believes technology can augment traditional teaching methods by examining how a student solves an algebra problem or structures a piece of writing and identifying learning gaps.
    — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of identifying
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  • United Democracy Project will continue operating, according to the letter, preserving AIPAC's ability to raise unlimited sums for independent political spending even as the group ends candidate endorsements, direct PAC contributions and earmarking.
    — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
  • But considering the child of someone whose transformational philanthropy may fund scholarships for low-income students for generations is a far cry from earmarking admissions slots simply because a parent attended the university.
    — Jayson Weingarten, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of earmarking
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  • Studio secretaries clipped their columns before the morning dailies reached the lot, marking any mention of the studio’s stars with red pencil.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2026
  • In 2025, Amazon pledged 250,000 holiday jobs, marking a 20% increase in jobs.
    — Itzel Franco, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of marking
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