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
  • His first three teams in Los Angeles won championships behind the dynamic duo of Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal, and the Lakers added two more titles in 2009 and 2010 led by Bryant and Pau Gasol.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026
  • But this was one of the most dominant individual campaigns in a season where collective effort won the biggest titles.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • He's got big plans for Season 3 Popular captions for the meme joke about male authority figures like dads and uncles ordering the viewer to do ludicrous tasks.
    Owen Carry, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The combination of text and image recurs throughout Lynch’s paintings as well, where captions often make distressing narratives explicit.
    Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Good morning and welcome to The Downshift, a daily sweep of today’s top headlines from the auto industry and car culture, curated by The Drive’s editorial team.
    Adam Ismail, The Drive, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Within that menu, there are three benchmarks — the 10-year, 30-year, and 2-year, in order of importance — that wind up dominating headlines.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026

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“Headings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headings. Accessed 16 Sep. 2026.

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