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
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Noun
  • The Cuban won flyweight gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics and later unified the WBA and IBF featherweight titles, and this is his bare-knuckle debut.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The sidebar returns with four microbudget films, and the rest of the lineup is filled with bold domestic and international titles that just might introduce attendees to their new favorite filmmaker.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 18 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • When the woman first appears in the animatic, the captions describe her control over It4mi.
    Krystie Lee Yandoli, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2026
  • This is excellent energy for captions, pitches, texts, brainstorming, flirting, or turning a quick idea into something shareable.
    Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • In an incident that made national headlines at the time, the Blink-182 drummer and three friends were in a private jet, heading home from Columbia, South Carolina, when the landing gear burst into flames.
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The Protect Progress political action committee is facing accusations of using fake Miami Herald headlines in mailers and television advertisements targeting Miami-Dade Commissioner Oliver Gilbert.
    Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026

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“Headings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headings. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

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