italicize
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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
The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was italicize.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 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
In astronomical and astrophysical matter italicize: The lower-case letters designating certain Fraunhofer lines: a, b, g, h.
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
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
I have italicized the words that make this requirement a very low bar.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2024
After his 10-catch performance against the Seahawks, Nacua did not warrant an italicized word in the headline for emphasis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
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
Hegarty Lovett lets silence reign, holding moments when something painful has been flippantly acknowledged and sometimes italicizing a line that sums up the heart of Beckett’s uncompromising worldview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
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
If one strolls thoughtfully about some of these streets—say Thompson Street—on a hot day, and sees the children struggling to grow up, he feels like going back to that word crazy and italicizing it.
From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Christopher Morley
Vocabulary lists containing italicize
STAAR Grade 5 Reading: Informational Text, List 2
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