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italicize

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


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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

The Obama paintings, each figure shown seated and depicted roughly life-size, are stylistically different from each other, although both italicize aspects of the sitter’s personality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2021

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

From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2017

"But from my knowledge of the men you are going presently to wrestle with, I should say 'no' and italicize it."

From Empire Builders by Jay Hambidge

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

I am not a lawyer, but it’s my understanding that when a judge capitalizes, italicizes, and bold-faces a word, he really, really means it.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2023

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

The ensemble recreates the communal energy of the characters, though sometimes what’s italicized in the script might have been more potently conveyed with underplaying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2025

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

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2024

Carolina’s jersey numbers are italicized, as are player names, “to signify the resistance of the force of a hurricane,” according to Adidas.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2023

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

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

The most frustrating bug, though, is its insistence on italicizing text unbidden.

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

Jackson has a habit of italicizing in rage a single word that makes Lear’s anger more rhetorical than believable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2016

And so, from the same fondness for an even and uniform appearance, had been the practice of italicizing important words, or words which should be emphasized when read.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce




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