titles 1 of 2

plural of title
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2
as in captions
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 a humorous illustration appears above the title of every chapter in the book

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as in championships
the position occupied by the one who comes in first in a competition won the singles title three years in a row

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titles

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of title

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Recent Examples of titles
Noun
The Heat has also made seven NBA Finals appearances and 10 Eastern Conference Finals appearances, won 16 division titles, and advanced to the playoffs 23 times. Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026 Early awards buzz is already building around several of the titles, which has screened for festival programmers. Clayton Davis, Variety, 14 July 2026 So far, no streamer or theatrical distributor has picked up Dreams of Violets for a commercial release after the Tribeca titles was shopped around. Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026 The service has launched on the App Store, Google Play and a dedicated website with more than 100 titles across crime, drama, reality, dating, factual entertainment and docs. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 14 July 2026 Brazil did it in 1994, 1998 and 2002 — winning two titles and losing to host France in the middle of that run. ABC News, 13 July 2026 This is a car heavily influenced by Formula 1, and engineered by a team with multiple F1 World Championship titles. Jason Barlow, Robb Report, 7 July 2026 Since making his professional debut in 2016, Díaz has become one of Colombia’s biggest soccer stars — winning league titles in Colombia, Portugal, England and Germany and making his World Cup debut in 2026. Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026 For more sedate vibes, there’s a library with around 2,000 titles. Fran Golden, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
Verb
Sinner, the 2024 Miami Open champion, became the first man since Roger Federer in 2017 to complete the Sunshine Double — winning Indian Wells and Miami titles back-to-back — and the first in history to win the double without losing a set. Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026 Let people follow problems across functions, not titles up a ladder. May Habib, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026 Both titles hail from directors with whom Hawke has maintained a strong relationship. Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025 In a keynote interview yesterday at MIPCOM, Le Goy was bullish about his studio’s chances of tapping into the growing demand for anime and games, titles thanks to its ownership of streamer Crunchyroll and its sister games biz, Sony Playstation. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025 That was just in time for the first of three Super Bowl titles the Chiefs won between that year and 2023-24. Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025 The Dragons didn’t play in 2024 after winning Manzanita League titles the previous two seasons. Rick Hoff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for titles
Noun
  • The Bachelor Nation star and his wife landed on the twins' first names after testing them out with River, who didn't hesitate to make the monikers part of her everyday vocabulary even before her little sisters were born.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • The jokes and goofy monikers mattered.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • People are bombarded with emails, text messages, X posts, Reddit threads, Instagram captions.
    Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • Organizations should ensure digital content is accessible through screen reader compatibility, captions, alt text and plain language.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Noun
  • And of course, Haaland, who is undoubtedly the breakout star of these championships.
    Dylan Jones, Robb Report, 16 July 2026
  • Only the Los Angeles Lakers (six NBA championships), San Antonio Spurs (five) and Golden State Warriors (four) have won more NBA titles than the Heat over the last 30 years.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026
Verb
  • This metadata names the component and assigns it a generation number that is incremented each time a new security fix ships.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 July 2026
  • The suit names OpenAI; OpenAI’s Chang Liu, a former Apple engineer, and OpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan, who previously led iPhone and Apple Watch product design.
    Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 10 July 2026
Noun
  • This group of significant works, which also includes the 1918–1921 Hollyhock House in Los Angeles and the 1956–1959 Guggenheim Museum in New York, became the UNESCO World Heritage List’s first-ever modern architecture designations.
    Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 14 July 2026
  • Moyle’s family had been working on potential development plans, prompting the Ada County Assessor’s Office to visit the area and see if the previous designations (agriculture for some parts and waste in others) still held true.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 13 July 2026
Noun
  • 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
Verb
  • Ferrari is wary of a culture that diagnoses and labels nearly everything, and equally wary of the backlash that waves off deeper work as just talking.
    Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 15 July 2026
  • Also highlighted this year as finalists are fellow couture designer Julie de Libran as well as menswear labels EgonLab and Kartik Research.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 28 June 2026
Noun
  • The Women’s Professional Baseball League on Wednesday unveiled the nicknames and logos of its four teams ahead of its inaugural season, with each team name inspired by pioneering women.
    Alanis Thames, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2026
  • The buck moon has other nicknames related to animals, plants and weather, including the feather moulting moon, salmon moon, raspberry moon and thunder moon.
    Alexiah Syrai Olsen, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026

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“Titles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titles. Accessed 21 Jul. 2026.

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