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[hed-lahyn] / ˈhɛdˌlaɪn /


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Quoting Dame Esther, the Daily Star's headline is: "It's too late for Dignitas."

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

The fest was slated to have headline sets by the Killers and Olivia Dean, along with Khruangbin, Sublime, Jack White and many others.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

“November is set to become more interesting, as we get a fresh CNB forecast, while potentially receiving punchy numbers for both November’s headline and core inflation,” they said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Yael Selfin, chief economist at KPMG, said while the headline growth figure was strong, it "masks a weaker picture for households".

From BBC Sep. 11, 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

The company has occasionally made headlines for bizarre incidents involving its driverless cars.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

For Samantha, she said what makes headlines rarely aligns with her own experience at Burning Man.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

Their colonies grow faster and bigger, and they end up making news headlines by bothering humans.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

On Tuesday, Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, made headlines when he resigned over concerns that the race to build self-improving systems is spiraling out of control.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

We’d barely made it out of the Tokyo Dome when the first enormous broadcasts appear on the sides of the buildings surrounding the arena, the headlines in giant, screaming letters.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

At the opening party for Windows on the World in 1976, headlined by opera star Beverly Sills and Mayor Abe Beame, Glaser’s dishware began to disappear.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Company officials then cut their ties with the woman they had headlined as a “legend.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

It will be headlined by unified super-featherweight champion Alycia Baumgardner, with the American stepping up to lightweight to face Elif Nur Turhan – on her way to a potential 2027 showdown versus Caroline Dubois.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

In an article in the right-wing Times daily headlined "Was it wrong to write so much about Jason Arday?" journalist Sarah Ditum defended her reporting.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

But my jaw really dropped when I read a July 19,2004, article from the International Herald Tribune headlined: “Want Fries With Outsourcing?”

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

But after his 2024 video of himself rocking out to his EDM version of “The Wheels on the Bus” went viral, a promoter pitched him on headlining a series of morning family concerts.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Yiannopoulos was an early supporter of Donald Trump during the 2016 election, headlining an event that year called Gays for Trump during the Republican National Convention.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

That makes Debbie and Judith relatable and extraordinary figures, in that they are 50-something women, played by 50-something women headlining a high-velocity espionage thriller, linked to developments each is entitled to be angry about.

From Salon Jul. 26, 2026

Duff graced the stage at the Inglewood venue as part of her Lucky Me tour, her first global headlining tour in nearly two decades.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

I was headlining at clubs all over the country.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah




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