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italicize

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


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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

“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

And just listen——” He began to read in a voice of deliberate malice, letting his voice italicize the more scandalous transitions of what was certainly a very foolish and ill-knit piece of assertion.

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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

The writers’ room consistently supplies stilted syntax to suit her imperious delivery, and Jackson reliably italicizes her lines with terrifically witchy gestures.

From The New Yorker May 30, 2018

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

It had a blue cover, she said, and was unmarked except for “cuaderno de trabajo” written in the italicized superscript taught in elementary schools around Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 26, 2024

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

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

Can you help me figure out how to stop the unwanted 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

Alas! for the horrible slang of those days, the vapid witless Corinthian talk, with its ogles and its fogles, its pointless jokes, its maddening habit of italicizing a word or two in every sentence.

From Through the Magic Door by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle




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