as in nominal
being something in name or form only
he's the titular head of the department, though it's the assistant managers who largely run things around here
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Recent Examples of titular
The singer announced the album in late January and dropped the music video for its first single, the titular track, during a commercial break at the 2026 Grammy Awards.
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Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2026
After all, the actor got his start playing the titular dancer in Billy Elliot on the West End.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 2 June 2026
And yet as the series expands from and twists around its simple horror concept (a wedding at the groom-to-be’s family house in the woods is fated for a titular dark catastrophe), Morrone’s performance as Rachel is able to shoulder the weight of quite a bit of backstory and a complicated endgame.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 May 2026
This time around, though, the one anointed wasn’t Pedro Pascal, the film’s leading man and titular Mandalorian, but rather his onscreen sidekick and co-star: the moss green, toddler-like creature known to the world as Grogu.
—Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 29 May 2026
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Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2026
After all, the actor got his start playing the titular dancer in Billy Elliot on the West End.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 2 June 2026
And yet as the series expands from and twists around its simple horror concept (a wedding at the groom-to-be’s family house in the woods is fated for a titular dark catastrophe), Morrone’s performance as Rachel is able to shoulder the weight of quite a bit of backstory and a complicated endgame.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 May 2026
This time around, though, the one anointed wasn’t Pedro Pascal, the film’s leading man and titular Mandalorian, but rather his onscreen sidekick and co-star: the moss green, toddler-like creature known to the world as Grogu.
—Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 29 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for titular
nominal
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The quality adjustment problem does not reside in nominal GDP, which simply asks what was spent, earned, or produced in current dollars, but rather in the deflator applied to convert those nominal figures into real terms.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
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In a recent client note, Thomas argued that real interest rates, or the difference between nominal rates and inflation, were much higher under Greenspan and thus more restrictive then, giving the Fed leeway.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
5 June 2026
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“Titular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titular. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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