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cutlines

noun

plural of cutline

as in captions

an explanation or description accompanying a pictorial illustration the cutline wrongly identified the people in the photo

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captions

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What changes is the copy, the captions, the screenshots and sometimes the layout itself.

— Gilad Bechar, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Joan Didion, the mistress of concision and a Hemingway admirer, began her career writing captions and sidebars to fit around pictures in women’s magazines.

— Louis Menand, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

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