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head

[hed] / hɛd /










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She put her head on his chest and closed her eyes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Looking beyond individual commodities, three broader macro forces are also sharping the market, said Guy Wolf, global head of market analytics at Marex.

From MarketWatch Sep. 13, 2026

Rhoa gave a head pat and some words of encouragement and ran back to the line for the next play.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

Helmets became a matter of keen public interest 20 years ago, after researchers linked football-related head trauma with the brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

“I should head west. Trouble always follows me.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

But surveying the coverage, I can’t help but notice that their hearts just aren’t in it these days, and that your grandpa’s favorite talking heads would rather discuss, um, another hot topic.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

On late night television, Jimmy Kimmel wondered aloud why we’re not taking the issue more seriously, offering the theory that, “It’s too much for us to wrap our heads around.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

He added: "We've also learnt that cool heads are needed, even in those most horrific of circumstances."

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Alexandr Wang, who heads MSL, reportedly told employees in July that Watermelon had caught up to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, which had launched in April, according to Business Insider.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

I pivoted away, only to see two ladies with their heads together whispering as they pointed at me.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The make-or-break senior season of college football’s biggest name was headed for disaster just as it began.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

But an extraordinary 90-foot putt from Kupcho on the 17th clawed the Americans back into contention and they headed up the last hole all square.

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

It’s no longer possible to turn a blind eye to the horrible places our culture is headed.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

She saw a long line of concrete trucks headed that way a few days ago, and a contractor told her the concrete was to fill in the hole.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

So Duane headed left, and that was that.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

Open final, Ben Shelton spoke over and over again about heading into uncharted territory.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Fittingly, it was the red-hot Stark who drained her putt on the 17th for a 2&1 win that meant Europe would at worst be level heading into the singles.

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

The climbers who'd been heading up K2 with Mingma G were unsettled, he says, and facing pressure from their families to go home.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

When the South Tower of the World Trade Center fell on Sept. 11, 2001, my father was on the Brooklyn Bridge, heading west.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said that, but your mother”—she sighs— “always seems to be heading the wrong way on a one-way street.”

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko




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