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boldface

[bohld-fays] / ˈboʊldˌfeɪs /
NOUN
typeface
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He has tangled with authorities in multiple states and broadcasts his moves on social media, including to boldface followers like Loomer and the musician Moby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

They are among the boldface names from Los Angeles who have emerged in the latest dump from the Epstein files.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

Many of the Renaissance’s boldface names make an appearance here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

Not only are viewers watching boldface names eat, they’re also watching them eat foods that are considered distasteful — which goes against the prim and proper image that celebrities are expected to uphold.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2024

“Don’t try to boldface your way through this one. That’s a fallacy. You taught me that yourself.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

This week, she muscled in on the battle over the newest and most advanced technology in the world that has been dominated by boldfaced names like Sam Altman and Jensen Huang.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

But Specktor is trying to do something subtler and more slippery than cataloging boldfaced names and bellyaching about how commerce has strangled art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

But it’s unclear how much the streaming service, known for specials by boldfaced names like John Mulaney and Adam Sandler, cares about minting stars.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

Reflecting the high stakes, Senate candidates have embarked on a frenetic pace of campaign events in the final days, as they trade sharpening attacks and enlist boldfaced names to hit the trail with them.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2022

Newspapers ran long articles on Cynodon dactylon and the editors of their garden sections were roused from the somnolence into which they had sunk upon receiving their appointment and shoved into doubleleaded boldfaced position.

From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore

Rather it’s a purposefully rousing homage to the ideals of journalistic independence, governmental accountability and gender equality that isn’t averse to underlining, italicizing and boldfacing why those principles are more important than ever.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2017

He says Indeed tried to find a way to keep it on the label just by boldfacing the first letters of Lavender Sunflower Date.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2016

But when historians chronicle the early 2000s, Hurlburt gambles, they’ll be boldfacing “War on Terror” in their textbooks.

From Time ● Feb. 15, 2013


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