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Instagram

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[in-stuh-gram] / ˈɪn stəˌgræm /
Trademark.
  1. the brand name for a photo- and video-sharing application and social media platform launched in 2010.


verb (used with object)

Instagrammed, Instagramming
  1. to post (a photo or video) on the Instagram app.

    I’m Instagramming a video of the whole family enjoying the Mickey Mouse birthday cake.

    This garden is one of the sights most frequently Instagrammed by visitors to our city.

noun

  1. a photo or video posted on the Instagram app.

    Oh, not another Instagram of her and her new puppy!

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How do Facebook, Instagram and all of Zuck’s other spawn remain integral parts of our lives until we die if users eventually get weary enough to figure out their existence is better off without them?

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

This summer, she announced on her YouTube channel that she would be taking a step back from short-form social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026

Tarrant posted his annoyance on his Instagram page to warn people that others had been stealing his videos and posting them on fake accounts.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Social commerce is starting to catch on in the U.S., where shoppers are now buying products by clicking links in TikTok and Instagram videos, and watching live-shopping streams on apps like Whatnot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

I don’t know if I’m ready to upload a photo of a new guy to Instagram because that’s a huge statement, but it'd be nice to start having something to remember this summer by.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

Music was central to two contemporary Dada sculptures, which are also sure to be among the most Instagrammed works this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

When he won, Johnson made Truss trade secretary, a role in which she Instagrammed her way around the world signing post-Brexit trade deals and raising her profile.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2022

Times Square is the most Instagrammed landmark in America, according to an analysis by the photo printing company Printique.

From New York Times ● May 28, 2022

Diana's strawberry rose smoothing made with my yogurt became the most Instagrammed snack of that year's event.

From Salon ● May 19, 2022

“The barista drew a cat that you could’ve Instagrammed, but it got messed up.”

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

And just as customers begin disappearing, the diner offers up a new empanada recipe that becomes a hit among the area’s Instagramming foodies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

In other words, it relies on influential people Instagramming their merch and recruiting new readers through their small screens.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

This is the new Gossip Girl: one in which you might overhear the word “privilege,” but coming from a group of teens Instagramming themselves while holding court at Frenchette.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2021

Perhaps it’s the notion that, with our now-vast population, not to mention the Curse of Instagramming, strikingly cool outdoor haunts are just going to be much more heavily peopled in our present and future.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2021

That part of 16th Street dead-ends at Lafayette Square, the iconic park in front of the White House usually filled with lunching wonks and Instagramming tourists.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2020

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