"in title only" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
It is often used to indicate that something is being referred to or suggested by a title or name, but it is not actually true in the context of the story. For example you could say, "The novel's title, King of the World, suggests that the main character has great power, but he is really just a lowly janitor in title only."
The Jets' exclamation point came courtesy of Brad Smith, a receiver in title only.
The Master of the Senate may have become its president, but in title only.
Led by Thaddeus Young (20 points), Philadelphia's sixth man in title only, the 76ers whittled the Heat's advantage to 88-87 with 2 03 left.
There were finalists who became famous without winning, like Grace Kelly and Tippi Hedren, and some Miss Rheingolds were a Miss in title only.
Besides Reagins, Wade and Hill in title only, the new general managers are John Mozeliak of St . Louis Neal Huntington of Pittsburgh, Bill Smith of Minnesota and Frank Wren of Atlanta.
A chapter about Monica Lewinsky is about her in title only: they halted their recordings for months while Ken Starr ransacked the White House for clues; when they resumed Clinton didn't want to talk about it.
But the key to the piece, and to all his music, is contained in the title: "only the sound remains".
As there are no abstracts in the publications of the SCI before 1991, (electrochemi* or electro-chemi*) and (wastewater or (waste water) or waste-water or water) were used as a search phrase in the title only to obtain a general long-term trend of electrochemical technology for water and wastewater treatment.
More than a decade ago, Andrew S. Grove, then the chief executive of Intel, aptly described the hypercompetitive mentality of Silicon Valley in his book title "Only the Paranoid Survive".
King Hussein gave Hassan the title only in 1965 -- altering the constitution to allow himself to name a brother, not just an eldest son, crown prince.
He took 28 wickets in their pursuit of their title, only two of them at home and that in a dry summer.
