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noun

plural of title

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a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known about the only thing the book and the movie have in common are their titles

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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 a humorous illustration appears above the title of every chapter in the book

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as in championships

the position occupied by the one who comes in first in a competition won the singles title three years in a row

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verb

present tense third-person singular of title

as in names

to give a name to what do you plan on titling your latest album?

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Putellas’ new team-mate Nikita Parris, who has won two top-tier titles and a Champions League in her career, suggests an athlete’s mental steel endures regardless of the context. — Katie Whyatt, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026 Tom Brady’s 23-season NFL career includes seven Super Bowl titles, three MVP awards, numerous endorsements with lifestyle brands like Ugg, and the distinction as the greatest player ever. — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 1 Sep. 2026 But the lack of studio films doesn’t mean there aren’t a number of buzzy titles at play at Venice this year. — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 1 Sep. 2026 At the same time, Venice remains one of the fall’s key launchpads for prestige movies, awards hopefuls and international titles looking to build momentum with distributors and buyers. — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026 Na Hong-jin’s Hope and Yoon Dan-bi’s The World Before are among the titles screening in Korean Cinema Today – Panorama Section. — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2026 Read on for the complete list of titles hitting Netflix in September. — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026 Every team is gunning for the tag titles but it was made pretty clear who the top contenders were on Sunday. — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Here are those schools with the year of their most recent titles. — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 25 Aug. 2026

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Sinner, the 2024 Miami Open champion, became the first man since Roger Federer in 2017 to complete the Sunshine Double — winning Indian Wells and Miami titles back-to-back — and the first in history to win the double without losing a set. — Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026 Let people follow problems across functions, not titles up a ladder. — May Habib, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026 Both titles hail from directors with whom Hawke has maintained a strong relationship. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025 In a keynote interview yesterday at MIPCOM, Le Goy was bullish about his studio’s chances of tapping into the growing demand for anime and games, titles thanks to its ownership of streamer Crunchyroll and its sister games biz, Sony Playstation. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025 That was just in time for the first of three Super Bowl titles the Chiefs won between that year and 2023-24. — Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025 The Dragons didn’t play in 2024 after winning Manzanita League titles the previous two seasons. — Rick Hoff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025

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Unlike Pluto's naming, when the public suggested monikers for the new planet, the public didn't participate in the scientific process of its recategorization.

— Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026
The monikers Bella and Luna have consistently vied for the top spot, with Max topping the charts in 2022, before being unseated by Milo.

— Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026

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Aledo has a record 12 state championships and hadn’t gone two consecutive years without a title appearance since the 2009 season, before falling in the state semifinals last season and reaching the state quarterfinals in 2024 before bowing out.

— Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Aug. 2026
That 1929 title was the first of three consecutive championships, and an NFL-record 13 titles — including four Super Bowl wins.

— Jim Reineking, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026

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The International Hydrographic Organization — of which both the United States and Canada are members — works to ensure that the world’s seas, oceans and navigable waters are surveyed and charted uniformly, and also names some of them.

— Bill Barrow, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
In addition to Ceja, the suit names two minors as plaintiffs.

— Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of names

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Your beneficiary designations on accounts with direct beneficiaries, including retirement accounts, life insurance, and transfer-on-death bank and brokerage accounts.

— Cicely Jones, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
The designations in question impacted business leaders and firms operating out of China, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Turkey, and Greece.

— Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 24 Aug. 2026

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Some school pocket charts have fluid designs, while other charts have preprinted headings that create a sense of structure, including fill-in-the-blank sentences and basic math formulas.

— BestReviews, Mercury News, 21 July 2026
Make Content Easier To Navigate One simple step is making content easy to navigate with clear headings, short sections and descriptive links.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of headings

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The wall labels at the Jewish Museum can only hold so much complexity, but that doesn’t stop the objects.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
Similarweb labels the finding correlation rather than causation, and the study covers United States desktop users across three verticals.

— Jason Goldberg, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

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Voting is underway for the Official State Dish Registry, which aims to be a permanent record of the foods that help define each state's identity, much like state birds and nicknames.

— James Powel, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026
As to whether Sassnitz shakes off its nicknames from last year, that partly depends on what happens this weekend.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

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