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 move changed the history of the Giants as Manning would eventually guide the team to two Super Bowl titles during his career.
    Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Although Edo will one day inherit his family’s ancestral seat, the Villa Mapelli Mozzi palace, his family’s titles don’t carry any legal status or come with a position in government.
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 20 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Its audio and video tools include text-to-speech, transcription, music generation, voice cloning, text-to-video, image-to-video, captions, and YouTube transcription and summarization.
    StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 19 Sep. 2026
  • According to the suit, ACLU-CT requested all docket numbers and case captions — a line at the top of a court document that identifies basic information like the names of the parties involved — for May 2026 through July 2026.
    Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 11 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • An equally loquacious memoir by his son, Prince Harry, was published in 2022, creating headlines around the world and leading to a fall-out with his family.
    K.J. Yossman, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Its leader, Sergei Mironov, 73, once gained headlines by posing with a symbol of brutality — a sledgehammer given to him by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late Wagner mercenary leader shortly before his failed 2023 mutiny.
    ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026

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“Headings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headings. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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