headings

plural of heading
as in titles
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 the recipe for turkey gumbo is under the heading "stews" rather than under "soups"

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Recent Examples of headings Google’s Search Central guidance and WCAG principles both emphasize making content easy to crawl and understand, using clear headings, logical site structures, descriptive alt text and meaningful link text. Ran Ronen, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 Attached to the appeal letter were nearly 200 pages of records organized by headings and numbers. Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025 By using standard resume headings, maintaining consistent structure and formatting throughout, and using spelling or grammar checkers to ensure that content is written correctly, applicants tend to stand out to AI. Jon Stojan, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Region tournaments took place earlier this week, during which several Nashville area teams and individuals earned the right to defend their titles from a season ago.
    Jacob Shames, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Univision, the Spanish-language media giant, acquired The Root in 2015 and assembled a portfolio of online brands — only to scrap that strategy and sell the titles to Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm, in 2019.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After a shake-up in the leadership of her controversial conservatorship, fans began to grow concerned for the musician who virtually disappeared from public life, but started frequently posting dancing videos to her Instagram, often with wild, semi-coherent captions.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Keep your language simple, avoid jargon and use captions, ASL interpreters and visual aids.
    Elle Chan, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The companies' inclusion in this list comes after both brands have been at the center of high-profile fallouts in the headlines over the past few weeks.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Those numbers didn't make headlines and, some experts fear, were obscured by the death toll.
    Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Headings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headings. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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