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In a sentence

Six example sentences with caption, each labelled with its topic.

• The photo won the prize, but the caption beneath it named the wrong village, and the magazine printed a correction.

  Photography

• The archive's oldest caption, typed under a 1912 photograph, lists every man on the dock by name and trade.

  History

• The museum's caption under the portrait ran to three lines, naming the sitter, the year, and the pigment the painter used.

  Art

• Reviewers complained that the figure's caption promised a control group that the graph itself never showed.

  Science

• The app suggests a caption for every uploaded photo, guessing at the beach, the dog, and the sunset.

  Technology

• The guidebook's caption under the harbor photo names the lighthouse, which turns out to be visible from our balcony.

  Travel

Found in these word lists

• Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
• 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
• GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized

Each source is a published word list that contains caption. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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