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cutlines

noun

plural of cutline

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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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The bulk of the population actually engages in a rather high volume of daily digital reading--captions, emails, text and chat messages, news feeds, search results, etc.

— Dana Kelley, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
Titles, descriptions and other metadata for older videos and podcasts may also be revised to reflect the new terminology, while the original recordings, transcripts and captions will remain unchanged.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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cutlines

cut loose

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