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The phrase "grabbed the headlines" is correct and commonly used in written English to describe an event, story, or person that has gained significant attention from the media or public.
Example: The scandal involving the celebrity couple quickly grabbed the headlines, dominating news coverage for weeks.
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The Israeli leader certainly grabbed the headlines.
Two points grabbed the headlines.
Andrew Flintoff grabbed the headlines.
Two men in particular grabbed the headlines.
But it was the "very unlikely" worst-case scenario that grabbed the headlines.
Improvements in the three-month rolling average of employment and unemployment though grabbed the headlines.
Rarely, though, has anything grabbed the headlines like his purported conversion to Islam.
The collapse of Asian currencies against the dollar grabbed the headlines last year.
But it is the apparent culture change – to "new, cuddly Ryanair" – that has grabbed the headlines.
It was the fact that a Saudi woman was racing in the U.A.E. that grabbed the headlines.
None of this has really grabbed the headlines, with attention being firmly focused on the euro crisis.
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