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italicize

[ih-tal-uh-sahyz, ahy-tal-] / ɪˈtæl əˌsaɪz, aɪˈtæl- /


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She doesn’t italicize the Hindi, affirming the fluidity of language in conversation and thought.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2022

Notes allows you to bold and italicize, too, which I do every once in a while if I’m feeling wild.

From The Verge ● Jan. 17, 2022

“They want you to italicize it or even put a glossary. And I think no, no, no, no.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2021

Rayne’s production does not italicize the issue, but the show is not indifferent, either.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2017

In these excerpts I italicize the important statements, and I follow each with a contradictory one of my own.

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed

In a startlingly modern conception, the negative space of Claudel’s abrupt amputation exposes — and italicizes — the human body’s dense, inescapable physicality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024

Her physical comedy, kinetic and rubbery, constantly shifting and shameless, italicizes everything.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

That metric underlines, italicizes and bolds McIlroy's steadiness from start to finish in the 2018-'19 season.

From Golf Digest ● Aug. 26, 2019

He has human frailties—the beautiful song “Say No to This” italicizes them—but he’s a hero, first to last.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2016

And when he prints it, in England, France, Germany, and Italy, he italicizes it, puts some whopping exclamation-points after it, and sometimes explains it in a parenthesis.

From The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain

His first major book, “In Our Time,” published a century ago this month, includes 14 short stories and 16 intense italicized single-page interchapters between the stories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

I have italicized the words that make this requirement a very low bar.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2024

After his 10-catch performance against the Seahawks, Nacua did not warrant an italicized word in the headline for emphasis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

I would dare anyone across Washington Wizards fandom to read those short, pointed and overly dramatic italicized sentences out loud and not say: whoa.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023

The italicized language in the description of the referenced exchange is paraphrased, not directly quoted.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Hegarty Lovett lets silence reign, holding moments when something painful has been flippantly acknowledged and sometimes italicizing a line that sums up the heart of Beckett’s uncompromising worldview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024

Size is important too: The best practice, according to the University of Edinburgh’s Disability and Inclusive Learning Service, is to use 14-point font and avoid writing in block letters or italicizing or underlining text.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2023

Can you help me figure out how to stop the unwanted italicizing?

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2022

In January, Escárcega announced that the food pages were abandoning the age-old practice of italicizing non-English words.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2020

Punctuation, hyphenization, capitalization, italicizing, spelling, required much, and of course received much, attention.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe




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