boldface
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Yet the cavalcade of boldface names and industry players never ends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Many of the Renaissance’s boldface names make an appearance here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
But many outlets, such as this one, presented the speech with the lines used in the ad in boldface, so anyone could see there was no misrepresentation of Reagan’s general feelings about trade and tariffs.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025
There are also boldface names of public figures known to have associated with Epstein over the years, but whose relationships with him have already been well documented elsewhere.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
The countries were arranged by continent, six to a page, with the capitals in boldface, followed by a short entry on the population, government, and other statistics.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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
It is a concept album that reckons forcefully with her past — not just the boldfaced part, but also the myriad woes and distortions that conspired to make her feel fearful and less-than.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
And the reputational stink once associated with the celebrity “line” of products has diminished with their ubiquity, creating a win-win — or at least no-lose-no-lose — situation for boldfaced names in search of a foothold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2023
Before that, though, he enjoyed hobnobbing with an ever-growing roster of boldfaced names in the entertainment and business worlds.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023
Duplicity, the most boldfaced trickery, had been resorted to, to lead Maximilian off the true scent.
From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Butler, Pierce
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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