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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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Actor Chad Lowe returned to Instagram on Thursday for the first time following the Sept. 29 death of his 13-year-old daughter Fiona.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

A photo Neha shared on Instagram showed their face streaked with ink stains.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“HOPE is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all,” John Owen Lowe shared in an Instagram Stories post.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

"This is why Facebook and Instagram still have billions of users."

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

She followed a bunch of vintage photography accounts on Instagram, and old apothecary bottles were a favorite subject.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

The aesthetically pleasing hotel has a rooftop pool, a highly Instagrammed greenhouse restaurant and the ’80s-themed speakeasy with karaoke suites.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

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

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

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

But Ai Weiwei is also known for, say, Instagramming pictures of his meatball dinner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019

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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