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 Some school pocket charts have fluid designs, while other charts have preprinted headings that create a sense of structure, including fill-in-the-blank sentences and basic math formulas. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 21 July 2026 Make Content Easier To Navigate One simple step is making content easy to navigate with clear headings, short sections and descriptive links. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 To work around this, LLM hackers turned to markup language, which, among other things, allows users to add formatting elements such as headings, lists, and links to text without the need for HTML tags. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 16 June 2026 Breaking information into short sections with scannable headings may help keep candidates engaged longer, so try to focus on that approach instead. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 18 May 2026 Will my boss prefer serif or sans serif headings in this pitch deck? — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026 On a radio channel typically reserved for crisp, professional callouts about altitude, headings and runway assignments, the animal impressions stood out — to put it mildly. — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026 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 Ratified in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment is short, a mere fifty words including the section headings, but with a large intended effect. — JSTOR Daily, 25 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for headings
Noun
  • Job titles that mention AI accounted for 37% of the increase.
    — Corynn Winston, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Vietnamese films grossed more than VND3 trillion ($114 million) at home in 2025, outperforming international titles in the local market for the first time.
    — Ophélie Surcouf, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • In lieu of captions, these are paired with placards giving slang terms for alcoholic intoxication.
    — J. Hoberman, ARTnews.com, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Lessons aren’t downloadable, and closed captions aren’t available.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Though most of the headlines about shortform content have been about vertical video and microdrama, buyers could be taken by the unique nature of the format.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Moscow — When the Siberian town of Shelekhov found itself at the center of global headlines over a plague scare, residents might have hoped to be the best informed.
    — Zahra Ullah, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026

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“Headings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headings. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.

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