running head

noun

Definition of running headnext
as in heading

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  1. heading
  2. header
  3. title
  4. headline
  5. caption
  6. catchword
  7. banner
Noun
  • Motivated by the selection committee’s decision to put UCLA as the No. 1 overall seed, South Carolina is dangerous heading into March.
    — Scott Phillips, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Michigan State is red hot heading into this huge matchup against Michigan, as the Spartans have won their last six games, including most recently defeating unranked Iowa behind 22 points from star guard Jase Richardson, as well as 15 points and six rebounds by forward Jaxon Kohler.
    — William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025
Definition of heading
Noun
  • Kane opened the scoring with a close-range header in the ninth minute, converting Michael Olise’s cross to give the home side the perfect early start.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Format your response as a structured database [paste in the column headers below] with each item ready to be added to my content library.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of header
Noun
  • The Huskies earned their 23rd Big East tournament title with a 70-50 win, ensuring all of their streaks live on for at least another day.
    — Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The victory was never in doubt for the No. 3 Huskies, who led wire-to-wire to secure their fifth consecutive Big East Tournament title and their 12th in a row including seven years in the American Athletic Conference from 2014-20.
    — Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of title
Noun
  • The young family was about to embark on a journey that is making headlines nationwide.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Six critical elements of a high-converting LinkedIn profile Create a headline that gets clicks Your headline is the first thing people see, and those first 45 characters appear everywhere in search results, comment sections, and messages.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of headline
Noun
  • Collette looked incredibly joyful in her video, and confirmed her exuberance in the caption.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Fif clearly disagreed with Budden’s reasoning, expressing so in the post’s caption, slamming his treatment of animals and other startling behavior.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Definition of caption
Noun
  • What begins as a low-energy list of jokes poking fun at Deborah’s bad parenting, each ending with a recurring line in which DJ calls her mom the C-word, morphs into a star-making performance for the amateur stand-up comic — with her crass refrain becoming a crowd-pleasing catchword.
    — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2024
  • And there will be more games like that this season, until consistency and cohesion become reality and not just catchwords.
    — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
Definition of catchword
Noun
  • People gathered later Wednesday near Istanbul’s police headquarters, carrying posters of the mayor and banners with his photo around their shoulders.
    — Mehmet Guzel and Suzan Fraser, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
  • With no streamer or network picking it up, the film found a home with Tom Ortenberg’s theatrical banner Briarcliff Entertainment.
    — Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of banner
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