a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action
when the disagreement between the two departments came to a head, the CEO called both managers in for a closed-door meeting
the part of a person that feels, thinks, perceives, wills, and especially reasons
challenged us to put our heads together and find a solution to the skyrocketing costs of the company's health insurance plans
the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do
as head of the planning committee, he had the responsibility of appointing someone to look into the parking situation
a word or series of words often in larger letters placed at the beginning of a passage or at the top of a page in order to introduce or categorize
rechecked to make sure that all the heads were in boldface
to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction
the road to riches headed north, thought many, as off they went to Alaska to try their luck at panning gold
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Turning this on its head, the susceptibility of Bose–—Thilo Stöferle, Ars Technica, 18 July 2017 Head over to PCWorld’s comprehensive Windows 10 Creators Update review for the full rundown and extensive hands-on impressions, or our round-up of the Creators Update’s best new features.—Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 17 July 2017
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Canadians head to the polls today to cast their vote in a snap election called by Prime Minister Mark Carney, in what may be the most consequential vote in the country’s history.—Callum Sutherland, Time, 28 Apr. 2025 While everyone else is laughing and joking before heading to the table, Porsha descends the stairs, killing the mood and dressed in all black, with Shamea noting in her confessional that her bestie only needs a ski mask to complete the look.—Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
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Williams was previously head coach for the Phoenix Suns, compiling a 194-115 record in four seasons in Arizona and leading the franchise to the 2020-21 NBA Finals, where the team lost in six games to the Milwaukee Bucks.—Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 20 June 2024 Samuel Leonard, the head deputy public defender overseeing juvenile cases in a number of L.A. County courthouses, said the department has yet to disclose the names of six of the officers involved in the Los Padrinos incident.—James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for head
Gavin O’Connor, who directed the first movie, returns to helm, as well as Jon Bernthal as Affleck’s brute-force brother and Cynthia Addai-Robinson as the Deputy U.S. Treasury Director who works with Affleck.
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Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2025
The new financial details arrive as some shareholders have called on Musk -- whose temporary status as a government employee expires next month -- to step down from his White House role and return full-time to the helm of Tesla.
This is followed by, among other special effects, a duck presentation dressed in that quintessential molecular gastronomy topping — foam — while burstable pixelated bubbles float across the table, and a plated course of hamachi and seaweed served as schools of bright fish swim amid coral below.
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Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Apr. 2025
By suspending the keyboard plate with Gaskets and packing the space with various sound-absorbing foams and silicone, Epomaker has eliminated the hollow echo of some mechanical designs that can cause friction in a shared office.
The biggest challenges facing Fort Worth include the hiring of a new police chief during a mental health crisis that law enforcement is failing to address effectively.
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Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
Production has slowed in recent years, sparking a nationwide crisis, yet people who step forward with solutions meet resistance.
Northern areas of Colorado — including on the Yampa River and near the Colorado River’s headwaters north of Kremmling — have above-normal snowpack.
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Elise Schmelzer,
The Denver Post,
20 Mar. 2025
These projects manage most of the major reservoirs on the western side of the Sierra Nevada range, from the headwaters of the San Joaquin River to Shasta on the Sacramento River in the state’s far north.
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