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italicize

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


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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

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

Occasionally, he had to push back against publishers who wanted to italicize or Anglicize Swahili and Arabic references and phrases in his books, he said.

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

"Miracles do not happen:"—'t is plain sense, If you italicize the present tense; But in those days, as rare old Chaucer tells, All Britain was fulfilled of miracles.

From Gawayne and the Green Knight A Fairy Tale by Lewis, Charlton Miner

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

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

There are moments in this novel when Ms. Robinson unnecessarily italicizes and telegraphs Lila’s emotions.

From New York Times Sep. 28, 2014

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 Twain, Mark

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

The skips in time that occur in the play are unnecessarily italicized.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 28, 2025

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

From Slate Feb. 21, 2024

From 1997 to 2000, Maryland wore black helmets with an italicized red “M” and the state flag.

From Washington Post Apr. 18, 2023

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

“I’m lean,” she replies, her wry expression italicizing the word, and for a fleeting instant our sense of Jolie the movie star works with our sense of the character, not against it.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2021

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

Something of this is reflected in the enormous amount of needless italicizing with which the typography of the book is afflicted, and which we trust will be amended in future editions.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various




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