italicize
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Jon Balke’s score is a spare accompaniment that knows when to italicize the unease and when to color in the serenity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
To italicize the point, perhaps, the fruit plate is a dollar cheaper than the ice cream.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 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
Rayne’s production does not italicize the issue, but the show is not indifferent, either.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2017
We italicize the word, for interference proves to be the keynote of Dr. Hodge's system.
From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray
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
There is some dispute about whether the new guidance captures Thomas’ conduct for the first time ever, or if it merely bolds, italicizes, and underlines what should’ve already been obvious.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2023
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
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
The website for Oura, maker of the smart ring that tracks your heart rate, movement and other health metrics, features screenshots of its app interspersed with reassuring reminders in italicized serif.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 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
But Bennet didn’t write the bloated, italicized nostra culpa, according to informed sources — it was a committee product headed by the standards desk, with extensive involvement from Sulzberger himself, sources say.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022
The italicized language in the description of the referenced text exchange is paraphrased, not directly quoted.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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But the latest round of queries about Hegseth’s qualifications and moral maturity may—it’s worth italicizing, may—be altering the equations.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2025
There’s a little too much mugging, italicizing and elbow-nudging, as if we might not be able to enjoy Sondheim’s unsparing wit on our own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
While we’re at it, let’s just stop italicizing passages entirely.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
As for your particular problems using LibreOffice, yes, I have seen similar reports of unwelcome issues with the suite’s clipboard and italicizing.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2022
This paragraph, in which the italicizing is mine, contains Max Muller's theory in a nutshell.
From Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by John Fiske
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STAAR Grade 5 Reading: Informational Text, List 2
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