titles 1 of 2

plural of title
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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
James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh led the Heat to two NBA titles and four Finals appearances in their four years together (2010 through 2014) before James left in free agency to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026 In addition to the three World Series titles, the Dodgers have won five NL pennants and nine division titles under Roberts. Liana Handler, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026 The ampd YouTube dashboard lets clients drill down from a national overview to a single channel, splitting any metric by age, gender, income and region, and switching the view between reach, hours watched and individual titles. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 June 2026 The same court where Williams won seven of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles, an Olympic gold medal and authored some of the most dominant moments of the modern women's tennis era. Dan Zaksheske, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026 Despite being a bargain signing and a key player with two Champions League and three La Liga titles, his relationship with the club and fans has reportedly soured due to recent trophyless seasons and boos. Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Arwood was crowned 2023’s Miss Albany, and has since held the titles of Miss Greater Atlanta in 2024 and Miss Northwest Georgia in 2025. Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 30 June 2026 In total, Williams has won seven singles titles and six women's doubles titles at Wimbledon, according to ESPN. Angeline Jane Bernabe, ABC News, 30 June 2026 France and Uruguay have two titles each, while Germany and Italy have four each. Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 22 June 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 jokes and goofy monikers mattered.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
  • There are some monikers common to Gen Z that today's parents may consider totally new-to-them options.
    Anna Earl, Parents, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • One of the more obvious storytelling choices in Weapon X is the lack of narrative captions.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Later, read the captions aloud together like a comic strip.
    Sherri Gordon, Parents, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • After the Shaq trade, for example, Odom went on to win NBA championships with the Lakers in 2009 and 2010, with Shaq not winning one again.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2026
  • His father is a Hall of Famer who won three championships with the Heat.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026
Verb
  • The lawsuit also names as a defendant ACF Property Management, which manages the Commons at Walnut Creek shopping center where the massage spa is located.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 June 2026
  • Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq are all still standing, and the memorandum names Lebanon as a covered front.
    Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Such designations are typically invoked for major events like presidential inaugurations or summits of world leaders and trigger a massive federal security response.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • County type designations are based on a New York Times analysis of data from the Census, the National Center for Health Statistics, and other research.
    New York Times, New York Times, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • Instead of streamlining, companies simply used generic headings to bucket their existing legal boilerplate.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 23 June 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
  • Netris labels its approach NAAM, for Network Automation, Abstraction, and Multi-Tenancy, and has become the platform neoclouds standardize on as the category takes shape.
    R. Scott Raynovich, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Sony Music, which owns SZA’s label RCA Records, is also in active litigation against Suno and competitor Udio, though labels Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group have settled their lawsuits against the music generators.
    Corbin Bolies, Variety, 21 June 2026
Noun
  • The moon's nicknames, like April's Pink Moon, May's Flower Moon or June's Strawberry Moon, originated from Native Americans, Colonial Americans and other cultures' names for the moon.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • The painting is an abstract map of Chicago titled after one of the city's many nicknames that originated in a Carl Sandburg poem.
    Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE, 19 June 2026

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“Titles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titles. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.

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