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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
why does each column have a header except the last one?
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Recent Examples of headers
This season, he has been used to get flick-ons for headers or run behind defences and get on the end of crosses or Fernandes’ through balls.
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Carl Anka, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
Glow-in-the-dark outsoles represent glowing engine headers, and the shoe’s color-shifting eggplant purple upper takes a page from custom car wraps.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 7 Jan. 2026
That includes usernames, passwords, card details, personal information, session cookies from HTTP headers and API tokens pulled directly from network requests.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Jan. 2026
Apple will continue streaming Friday night MLB double-headers through 2028.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
Four-pin headers on the back of the motherboard handle SATA power if such drives are required.
—PC Magazine, 12 Nov. 2025
The coverage will include Wednesday night double-headers, a dedicated pregame show and a postgame studio show.
—Jessica Golden, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
Carl Anka, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
Glow-in-the-dark outsoles represent glowing engine headers, and the shoe’s color-shifting eggplant purple upper takes a page from custom car wraps.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 7 Jan. 2026
That includes usernames, passwords, card details, personal information, session cookies from HTTP headers and API tokens pulled directly from network requests.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Jan. 2026
Apple will continue streaming Friday night MLB double-headers through 2028.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
Four-pin headers on the back of the motherboard handle SATA power if such drives are required.
—PC Magazine, 12 Nov. 2025
The coverage will include Wednesday night double-headers, a dedicated pregame show and a postgame studio show.
—Jessica Golden, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for headers
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Sabalenka is 6-6 against Gauff, who won both her Grand Slam titles against the Belarusian.—
Merlisa Lawrence Corbett,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Mikaela Shiffrin became the first skier in the six-decade history of the World Cup with nine season titles in one discipline.—
Kayla Hayempour,
NBC news,
26 Jan. 2026
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According to the captions of the post, which was cross-posted with the Industrial Workers of the World’s San Francisco Bay Area account, 27 of 283 Peet’s Coffee locations are slated to close.—
Iris Kwok,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2026
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Glimpses of the visit are on Ai’s Instagram account, where the artist actively posts but doesn’t typically write captions, contributing to the trip’s under-the-radar quality.—
Stephy Chung,
CNN Money,
22 Jan. 2026
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Simple formatting, recognizable headings, and standard section labels all carry weight in whether a resume is parsed correctly.—
K. H. Koehler,
USA Today,
23 Dec. 2025
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Ratified in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment is short, a mere fifty words including the section headings, but with a large intended effect.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Oct. 2025
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Mamdani’s team learned to use the Post to its advantage in limited ways, posting screengrabs of New York Post headlines intended to upset conservative readers that the campaign thought made Mamdani look good.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
2 Feb. 2026
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Sure enough, photos show firefighters arrived to see a sunken pickup with the headlines still on, and the driver standing atop a truck bed cover in the dark.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Headers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headers. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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