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Headline   /hˈɛdlˌaɪn/   Listen
Headline

noun
1.
The heading or caption of a newspaper article.  Synonym: newspaper headline.
verb
1.
Publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline.
2.
Provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline.



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"Headline" Quotes from Famous Books



... into the campaign was accompanied by a blare of publicity, and during that fortnight I never picked up a morning or evening newspaper without reading, on the first page, some such headline as "Crowds flock to hear Paret." As a matter of fact, the crowds did flock; but I never quite knew as I looked down from platforms on seas of faces how much of the flocking was spontaneous. Much of it was so, since the struggle had then become sufficiently dramatic to appeal to the ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... seen another headline—a big headline that read: "Loss of Life at Rising Water! Governess of Jerome Tressady's Family Swims One Mile to Safety!"—and she ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... vindicated—if it pays. On the other hand, see what splendid financial successes the ICONOCLAST, the Galveston News and the so-called yellow journalism of New York all are. "Deserve, in order to command success," the old copy-book headline used to say, from which it follows as mud does rain, that whatever succeeds deserves it, and whatever doesn't, doesn't. It doesn't take much besides capital to succeed, however, "where the conditions for the propagation of empiricism are more favorable than ever before." ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... pointed to an article. Drake took the paper and read the article through. His face darkened as he read. The article had a headline which puzzled Drake for a moment. It was entitled The Drabious Duke, and it proceeded to set out the episode of Gorley's court-martial and execution. The facts, Drake recognised, were not exaggerated, but the sting lay in the suggestion with ...
— The Philanderers • A.E.W. Mason
... had seen another headline—a big headline that read: "Loss of Life at Rising Water! Governess of Jerome Tressady's Family Swims One Mile to ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris


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