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headline

[hed-lahyn] / ˈhɛdˌlaɪn /


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Nomura cuts its 2026 headline inflation forecast to 5.5% from 6.1%, while still assuming that Brent crude oil prices average $98.4 per barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

By the end, the headline was not Iran, the economy or Trump’s proposed compensation fund.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

But recent labor-market data may be telling an incomplete story, where headline numbers — such as nonfarm payrolls and the unemployment rate — look better than the health of the consumer.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 7, 2026

The heist and subsequent search for the loot has gripped the Netherlands and regularly made headline news.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Hence the 2004 headline in the satirical newspaper The Onion on the passing of postmodernism’s leading light: Jacques Derrida “Dies.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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