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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
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Recent Examples of headers
This season, he has been used to get flick-ons for headers or run behind defences and get on the end of crosses or Fernandes’ through balls.
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Carl Anka, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
Glow-in-the-dark outsoles represent glowing engine headers, and the shoe’s color-shifting eggplant purple upper takes a page from custom car wraps.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 7 Jan. 2026
That includes usernames, passwords, card details, personal information, session cookies from HTTP headers and API tokens pulled directly from network requests.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Jan. 2026
Apple will continue streaming Friday night MLB double-headers through 2028.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
Four-pin headers on the back of the motherboard handle SATA power if such drives are required.
—PC Magazine, 12 Nov. 2025
The coverage will include Wednesday night double-headers, a dedicated pregame show and a postgame studio show.
—Jessica Golden, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
Carl Anka, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
Glow-in-the-dark outsoles represent glowing engine headers, and the shoe’s color-shifting eggplant purple upper takes a page from custom car wraps.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 7 Jan. 2026
That includes usernames, passwords, card details, personal information, session cookies from HTTP headers and API tokens pulled directly from network requests.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Jan. 2026
Apple will continue streaming Friday night MLB double-headers through 2028.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
Four-pin headers on the back of the motherboard handle SATA power if such drives are required.
—PC Magazine, 12 Nov. 2025
The coverage will include Wednesday night double-headers, a dedicated pregame show and a postgame studio show.
—Jessica Golden, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for headers
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Mountbatten-Windsor’s relationship with Epstein cost him his role in the royal family, with King Charles in October taking the extraordinary step of stripping him of his titles and his home.—
Max Foster,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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The Bison have won 10 national titles since the 2011 season, the most recent in 2024.—
Chris Branch,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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As music played in the background, overlaying captions appeared on screen beside Bader, 30, who underwent bariatric surgery in December 2023.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
3 Feb. 2026
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According to the captions of the post, which was cross-posted with the Industrial Workers of the World’s San Francisco Bay Area account, 27 of 283 Peet’s Coffee locations are slated to close.—
Iris Kwok,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2026
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Simple formatting, recognizable headings, and standard section labels all carry weight in whether a resume is parsed correctly.—
K. H. Koehler,
USA Today,
23 Dec. 2025
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Ratified in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment is short, a mere fifty words including the section headings, but with a large intended effect.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Oct. 2025
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The fallout from the files has consumed much of the news media in recent weeks, dominating headlines and coverage at major news institutions as journalists and independent creators dig through the files for embarrassing nuggets of association about high-profile individuals.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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His goals have always made the headlines, but his movement off the ball to create space for his team-mates is equally impressive.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Headers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headers. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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