What is the appropriate semantic HTML tag for a short blurb underneath a heading?

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What is the best semantic HTML tag for a short blurb underneath a heading? I'm sure this has a name since a large amount of websites have this, but I can't seem to find it or the appropriate tag.

<h1>Page Title</h1>

<h2>Section Title</h2>
<div>Short blurb about this section</div>
<div>Section content</div>
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You can use the small tag in place of the p tags, like I did below. This page should help https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_formatting.asp

<header>
   <h1>HTML 5.1 Nightly</h1>
   <small>A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML</small>
   <small>Editor’s Draft 9 May 2013</small>
</header>

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I found the answer to my question not long after posting this. According to W3, I should wrap the heading and blurb (they call it a subtitle) in a <header> tag:

Example 4: In the following example the title and tagline for a news article are grouped using a <header> element. The title is marked up using a h2 element and the tagline is in a p element. A sample CSS styled rendering of the title and tagline is provided below the code example.

<header>
  <h2>3D films set for popularity slide </h2>
  <p>First drop in 3D box office projected for this year despite hotly tipped summer blockbusters,
  according to Fitch Ratings report</p>
</header>

Title:'3D films set for popularity slide' in a large, bold, dark blue Serif font style. Paragraph: 'First drop in 3D box office projected for this year despite...' in a smaller, dark grey, Sans Serif font style.

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