Thesaurus results for HEADLINE

headline

noun

as in title

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 I usually just glance at the headlines in the morning paper before dashing off to work

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Recent Examples of headline That 2010 crime dominated headlines in Baltimore. —

Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026 The next day, Marca’s front cover reported that Carvajal would start against Real Sociedad with the headline ‘from the grey sofa to the starting XI’. —

Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026 Take, for example, the class at Kalamazoo College that recently made headlines. —

Shannon Watkins, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026 The exhibition, in a city where months of unrest followed the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson, became a local flashpoint that made national headlines. —

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for headline

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Noun

Bromley, a club from the edge of south-east London who have been in the English Football League (EFL) for just two seasons, were promoted last weekend and know that four points from their last two league games will guarantee them the league title.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
His creative North Star had disappeared, hence the album title of Location Lost.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026