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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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Messages of support with the hashtag #IAmJaneDoe have proliferated on TikTok, X and Instagram, with users claiming to be the alleged victim in a bid to make it harder to identify her.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

The constant flux of TikTok clips, Instagram reels and YouTube shorts running through our social-media feeds isn’t only zapping our attention spans, it’s altering how we perceive time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Muñoz wrote on Instagram, alongside photos of Rodrigo with the guitar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“It’s a really great location. I can’t say enough about the building and the people,” he said in a video tour of the home shared on Instagram.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

When I check my phone before bed, I see Mrs. Fischer posted a comment with a ton of balloon and smiley emojis to my Instagram of the warden’s press release.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

She is a hotel “preservationist” who runs two of Ojai’s most Instagrammed lodgings, the Capri Hotel and the Ojai Rancho Inn, through her company Shelter Social Club.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2022

Maybe it’s a finger-shaped lime with juice vesicles that look like caviar; maybe it’s a ham-hued pineapple, engineered by Del Monte to be Instagrammed.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022

As Lydia tweeted and Instagrammed them, Dill smiling in each one, she basked in her relief.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

Such is the appeal of “Emily in Paris,” which, much like the croissants she insists on Instagramming, is full of nothing meaningful but will always be there for those who are tempted.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 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

You need a lot of people Instagramming, Instagramming, Instagramming because it’s a way to get images of your clothes out into the world.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2021

On Tuesday, two tourists wearing Liberty Bell T-shirts strolled along the Walk of Fame, Instagramming their end-of-summer delights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2020

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