titling

verb

present participle of title
as in naming
to give a name to what do you plan on titling your latest album?

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Recent Examples of titling Agada often looks to literature when titling his work — not to curate the viewing experience or interpretation of the work, but to add another layer of meaning. — Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026 This particularly bizarre corner of the practice (a band titling a song after another band who have a song with their name) actually has precedent, though. — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026 What also felt exciting to me about titling the album and using a word that’s more rooted in the meaning of your own self being an exhibit on display. — Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026 With the titling issues sorted, Arkell said the developers will start with building out roads, sewers and utility lines, and clear the 50-acre property over the next eight to 10 months in order to make way for building construction. — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026 From there, people can begin to look at titling assets and designate beneficiaries while also learning how assets pass (through probate or outside of probate) at death and to whom with different titlings and beneficiaries. — Medora Lee, USA Today, 14 May 2026 Lee Cronin was both flattered and frightened when Jason Blum suggested titling his The Mummy reimagining as Lee Cronin’s The Mummy. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2026 Interestingly, fans of The Bodyguard will have a hand in titling the new Netflix movie — keep an eye on the Instagram pages of Meester, Padalecki and Center to find out more. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for titling
  1. naming
  2. labeling
  3. dubbing
  4. calling
  5. nominating
  6. designating
  7. terming
Verb
  • The board of Goldman Sachs has held talks about naming COO and President John Waldron the bank's new CEO as soon as next year, The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday , citing people familiar with the matter.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The State Department condemned the aid convoy strike without naming who was responsible.
    — Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of naming
Verb
  • Collecting and manually labeling examples that cover all these conditions is therefore difficult and expensive.
    — Bo Wang, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Although heavily implied, officers at the news conference stopped short of labeling Betkouski as a suspect in the Tylenol murders.
    — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of labeling
Verb
  • The new live features include a new co-hosting function in which two creators can appear on the same stream together, and a live auto-dubbing tool that automatically translates speech in real time.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The platform also carries premium-quality subtitles and dubbing in more than 12 Asian languages, among them English, Hindi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada and Marathi.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of dubbing
Verb
  • Whatever the underlying reason, calling the problem by its name — gently recognizing the caregiver is struggling — adds a sense of agency and the strength to keep going.
    — Alicja Turczyk, The Dial, 29 Sep. 2026
  • To get the coach's side of the story, CBS News Detroit tried calling her, reaching out to her on social media, knocking on her door and writing her a letter.
    — Julia Avant, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of calling
Verb
  • Voters also will be nominating candidates for the entire state Legislature, where Republicans hold a roughly 40-vote majority in the 400-member House and outnumber Democrats in the Senate 16-8.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
  • And in the event that Chris Hansen is indeed the role that finally lands the actor a nomination, in a very literal sense, the Academy will also be nominating him for The Odyssey.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of nominating
Verb
  • The ballot measure also would make a major change to gubernatorial recall elections by automatically designating the lieutenant governor as the replacement.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • In July, the Drug Enforcement Agency proposed temporarily designating 7-OH above a certain threshold of potency as Schedule I, the category for drugs that carry the most risk without any medical benefit.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of designating
Verb
  • The five-member governing body is guaranteed at least one new face, with four candidates vying for the open 4th District seat now that Doug Chaffee will be terming out at the end of the year.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
  • With Vice Mayor Pam Foley terming out, five individuals are vying for her District 9 seat, which encompasses a southwestern portion in San Jose, including the Cambrian Park neighborhood.
    — Grace Hase, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
Definition of terming

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“Titling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titling. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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