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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

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

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

From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2017

I italicize the most direct borrowings, but both the Wartons had so saturated themselves with Milton's language, verse, and imagery that they ooze out of them at every pore.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

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

In places where this departure from the MS. has been made, he italicizes the words of his translation.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

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

More of Singer’s italicized phrases followed in the lengthy statement, as well as a threat that Chase was exposing herself to “significant liability.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 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 quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

Can you help me figure out how to stop the unwanted italicizing?

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2022

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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