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On TikTok and Instagram, a person's "aura" alludes to their style or attitude, with "100% aura" high praise for the most effortlessly cool persona.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
With a knack for lively storytelling, Peva shares that lore with more than 37,000 Instagram followers—who, alongside his signature boarding-school bow ties, have made the veteran broker an unlikely social-media influencer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Bautista, who had been rumoured to be in line to take the part for weeks, confirmed the casting by posting an image of the character to his Instagram account.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“This wasn’t an easy decision, and not one we take lightly, but in our hearts, we know this break will only make Bonnaroo better,” organizers of the Manchester, Tenn., festival wrote on Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The community loves it; readers have even found me and Samantha on Instagram to tell us.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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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
“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
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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
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
But Ai Weiwei is also known for, say, Instagramming pictures of his meatball dinner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
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