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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

“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

V. In text matter use roman for the name of any author, but italicize the title of the work.

From The Uses of Italic A Primer of Information Regarding the Origin and Uses of Italic Letters by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton

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

Mr. Lucci gives Gross immense dignity without shrinking at all from his flamboyance; he italicizes italics and turns sibilance into music.

From New York Times May 6, 2018

Our author in his reply quotes this note, and italicizes the passages as they are printed here.

From Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" by Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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 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

Our logo is there, but beneath that in italicized letters it says: Official Sponsor of Clover City’s Miss Teen Blue Bonnet Pageant.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

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

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

“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

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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