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Instagram

American  
[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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"He's absolutely smashing it," influencer and former reality show star Georgia Harrison, who has 1.3 million followers on Instagram, told Times Radio.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

Not only are the states seeking upwards of $1 trillion, external from Meta, they are demanding it make changes to Instagram and Facebook, including ending "like" counts and infinite scroll.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Vozinha, the previously little-known Cape Verde goalkeeper, became a cult hero for his heroics against Spain - the 40-year-old's Instagram growing from 50,000 to nearly 30 million followers.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Terah Lynn, a 37-year-old manufacturing supervisor in Nashville, helped spark the meme with posts on her @TerahBuilds Instagram and TikTok accounts that went viral and were soon copied.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

The girls from my school in Chicago would pay good money just to take Instagram pictures here.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

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

From Salon May 19, 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

At the tender age of 25, while her contemporaries were Instagramming latte foam and downloading dating apps, the British author Ella Risbridger lost her longtime boyfriend to cancer.

From Washington Post Aug. 3, 2022

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

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

Crucially, the Lowell Farms logo — an outline of a horned goat head — has been installed in neon lighting for optimal Instagramming.

From New York Times Oct. 25, 2019

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