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
  • Jia also co-founded Unknown Pleasures, a Chinese art-house distributor named after his 2002 film, and says the company is negotiating to acquire two Cannes titles.
    — Jenny S. Li, Variety, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Both Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother and American Fiction are from Amazon MGM’s Orion Pictures banner, which has had a great run under President Alana Mayo with titles from Nickel Boys and Till to Bottoms and Women Talking.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • What changes is the copy, the captions, the screenshots and sometimes the layout itself.
    — Gilad Bechar, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Joan Didion, the mistress of concision and a Hemingway admirer, began her career writing captions and sidebars to fit around pictures in women’s magazines.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • That’s the part of Hope Florida Bullard wishes more people understood — not the $10 million that made the headlines, but the agency underneath it, and the families who depend on it.
    — Sharmila Venkatasubban, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026
  • On this week’s episode of The Drivecast, Joel and Kyle—a Los Angeles resident with a old truck that recently failed its smog test—go beyond the headlines to explain the uncomfortable truth about Leno’s Law that no one wants to acknowledge.
    — Kyle Cheromcha, The Drive, 24 Sep. 2026

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“Headings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headings. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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