How to get post category title within the loop?

The function get_the_category() returns an array of category objects. To get the name of the first category, use this:

$categories = get_the_category(); 
$cat_name = $categories[0]->cat_name;

For a list of the properties of the category object, see the documentation on get_the_category()

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