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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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Data from parental control app Qustodio in August showed that under-16s in Australia were increasing their use of social media apps such as Instagram and TikTok despite the ban.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The former composer also reportedly posted concerning videos on Instagram of himself spending “much of his time on the street.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

"Is this measure intended to make it easier for women to be mothers or is it intended to make it easier for them not to be while they're playing?" she wrote on Instagram.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

They began advertising the product by posting links in Reddit threads and buying ads on Instagram.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

My fragile heart would not have survived seeing up-to-the-minute photos of my friends and classmates on Facebook or Instagram or Snapchat.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

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

Travel Lens also ranked Deception Pass as the fourth most Instagrammed state park in the country, with 119,674 posts on the platform using park-specific hashtags.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

But then your cousin’s boyfriend Instagrammed a cool meme involving his neighbor’s chihuahua, and you went down a social media rabbit hole.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 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

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

Instagramming and YouTubing parents expose their children in ways that regularly walk the line between creativity and exploitation—and get called out for it.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 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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