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The answer to the question posed in the subhead of this entry is most likely: There isn’t one.
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2025
But I think about the phrase “body copy” — a printer’s term for the heart of the text, the main part of the text, everything that isn’t a headline or subhead or caption.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025
The subhead of the book is "the art of the perfect sandwich."
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2024
The subhead on last week’s game review read: “The offensive line has protected Stafford.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
When there is a paragraph ending, The President spoke as follows:, place the subhead before this paragraph and not between it and the quoted matter.
From The Style Book of The Detroit News by News, The Detroit
He also looks for trends and stories that connect the dots, which are collected beneath subheads — AI, water, housing, education and the like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026
For instance, traditional SEO strategies advise users to put plenty of subheads in their content.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
People often saw the Gazette as a cabal plotting against their side in whatever the current dispute was by rejecting submissions, making insidious edits or changing headlines or subheads.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022
Headings and short subheads group related information, clearly describe sections of text or media, and provide an outline of the content.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
All of this appeared in Centurion bold type—already antiquated in 1917—with delicate hairlines separating seven columns and subheads in bold serif relief.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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