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[hed] / hɛd /










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“The actual announcement came across as much less dramatic than anticipated, with a wide gap between the rhetoric and the substance,” Jorge León, head of geopolitical analysis at Rystad Energy, wrote in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

“It’s gonna take a long time for me to be okay,” he adds, lowering his head into his hands.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

When asked about the Argentina goalkeeper's absence from last season's opening league match against Crystal Palace, head coach Unai Emery just repeated replacement Marco Bizot's name several times.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Rich Privorotsky, head of Delta One trading at Goldman Sachs, told clients in a desk note published Monday that this index had now fallen 40% since the end of June.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

I demand loudly, despite my still throbbing head.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

It cleared the Senate’s appropriations committee this month and heads to a Senate vote.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Settlement talks with Live Nation moved above the heads of the trial team, as Woodward, the DOJ’s No. 3 official, took over, working with Assefi.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

They have thick gray bodies, small heads and short, rounded snouts.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

De Zerbi somehow needs to get into the heads of these Spurs players to give them strength and steel.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

Everyone spills out and heads in different directions.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Nathan Collins: Missed early headed chance but it did not prove costly.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

World Labs, the startup headed by Stanford professor and Google veteran—and “godmother of AI”—Fei-Fei Li, recently acquired robotics company Scenix.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Dog owners say that as soon as they pull into the driveway, their pups realize exactly where they’re headed and “start going bonkers,” says Neece.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

U.S. manufacturing could be headed for an AI-fueled revival.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

Jonah let about a dozen kids file out ahead of him; he could see them stretched out across the yard in the sunshine, headed for the woods of the nature preserve.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Expectations are high heading into Dell Technologies’ earnings report next week, but an Evercore ISI analyst says the company should be able to clear Wall Street’s bar and send its stock even higher.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

He spent nearly 14 years there before heading to Group 1001, the subsidiary that oversees Walter’s two insurers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

The lessons of the sprint race earlier on Saturday make Norris cautious heading into Sunday's race at Zandvoort.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

The two economies are heavily inter-connected, with roughly 70 percent of all Canadian exports heading to the United States.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

But before I can talk myself into heading back into the rain, the bell tinkles again.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy




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