italicize
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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
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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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