I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a newspaper headline
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‘Wine is good for you’ announced a recent newspaper headline.
banner headline
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The front-page banner headline read ‘Disgraced police chief to stand trial’.
grabbed the headlines (= was the most important story in the newspapers )
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The plight of the refugees immediately grabbed the headlines .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
banner
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It was given a banner headline on page one and was continued on two inner pages.
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In banner headlines , the Cataract Journal announced that he had saved the carnival.
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Success is celebrated in banner headlines .
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The story also earned a front-page banner headline in the national newspaper, the Globe and Mail.
news
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This is no one-day wonder, as most news headlines are.
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But elements of that crisis are already recurrent news headlines .
newspaper
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Even in his retirement he has continued to make newspaper headlines .
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When David first caught sight of the newspaper headline on the board outside he shook himself with wonder.
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After national newspaper headlines about racism in the town, Telford has begun to consider whether there is an undercurrent of prejudice.
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She noticed the newspaper headlines and was vaguely aware of advertisements.
■ VERB
capture
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Teenager Lee Ellison captured the headlines , and attracted League scouts to Feethams, with his goal scoring earlier in the season.
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Although Patriots capture headlines and boast of a massive underground movement, they are so amorphous that counting them is guesswork.
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But now that confronting Enron has captured the necessary headlines , the deal is quietly being put back together again.
dominate
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Industrial action and pay disputes dominated the headlines in the 1970s.
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As the news of layoffs and plant closings came to dominate the headlines and the airwaves, consumer spending dropped off sharply.
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When did climate change last dominate the headlines ?
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Mr Murdoch had been dominating the headlines again.
grab
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What has grabbed headlines this year is the issue of food safety.
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Mr Pincher, though, is only the ghost writer and it's Dido who's grabbing the headlines .
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That was the rift that grabbed headlines late in 1990, as a result of a dire forecast.
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When it came to grabbing the headlines , it was regularly the opposition that stole the show.
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Yet another key factor was that some companies saw Hare as a way to grab headlines for themselves and their products.
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He doesn't need other players becoming second class news because their colleague is grabbing all the headlines for the wrong reasons.
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The university says the report is just an attempt to grab headlines .
hit
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Not long afterwards the Dams Raid took place, and this did hit the headlines and captured the imagination of the public.
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The village hit the headlines , however, in a tragic way when an accident and fire happened on 13 October 1928.
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Only a life-or-death issue such as a liver or heart will hit the headlines .
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Pundits' predictions of repossessions topping 80,000 during 1991 hit the headlines .
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A former priest, he hit the headlines as secretary and then chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
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Institutions that hit the headlines with accounts paying top-flight rates might also have a few skeletons in the cupboard.
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This week, Ali G lookalike Gavin Burtenshaw hit the headlines for reasons too dull to mention.
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Ride a big winner, hit the headlines - that's racing.
make
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Even in his retirement he has continued to make newspaper headlines .
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The media buy into the scam because such scare stories about unseen threats make good headlines .
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Days later his passionate affair with cartoonist Sally Anne Lassoon was making headlines .
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More airplane tragedies will make the headlines .
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We even occasionally make the headlines - one year the senior team beat Millfield Junior, for example.
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But why should he alone make the headlines ?
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The story made headlines around the nation for weeks.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
capture the headlines
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Teenager Lee Ellison captured the headlines, and attracted League scouts to Feethams, with his goal scoring earlier in the season.
hit the headlines
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Institutions that hit the headlines with accounts paying top-flight rates might also have a few skeletons in the cupboard.
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It's the E.coli 0157 strain that often hits the headlines.
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Not long afterwards the Dams Raid took place, and this did hit the headlines and captured the imagination of the public.
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Only a life-or-death issue such as a liver or heart will hit the headlines.
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Pundits' predictions of repossessions topping 80,000 during 1991 hit the headlines.
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The village hit the headlines, however, in a tragic way when an accident and fire happened on 13 October 1928.
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Their problems all hit the headlines.
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They hit the headlines last year when Richard left his first wife, Caroline, a housemaid with Princess Diana.
make the papers/headlines/front page etc
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And the story made the front pages.
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Not surprisingly, the story made the front page of the New York Times and many other papers.
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Print reporters know their stories stand a better chance of making the front page.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A supermarket tabloid newspaper had the headline "Space Aliens Meet with the President."
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I just saw the headline . I didn't have time to read the article.
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The headline read: "Pope to Visit Kazakhstan."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Changes in the alcohol section stole the headlines.
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Charlotte could almost suspect the headline had already been selected, the outcome already determined.
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First, and best known, is GoScript while more recently Freedom of the Press has also been making a few headlines.
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In recent weeks and months, the headlines have painted a picture of an industry in crisis.
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Mr Murdoch had been dominating the headlines again.
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The Grandstand presenter-turned-guru was hardly out of the headlines two years ago.
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The killer will be caught, photographed in handcuffs, mentioned in headlines for months, maybe years.
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The problems-from bad backs to carpal tunnel syndrome to headaches-have made the headlines of every health magazine in the country.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Frank Sinatra headlined at the Sands Hotel for three consecutive seasons.
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The report was headlined "Big Changes at City Hall."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The ordinary reader is impressed by the tone and manner of publication, and the words chosen to headline a story.