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italicize

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


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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

“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

It is very singular that they, in their account of the brush, should italicize the word wooden, as much as to say we had an iron-clad.

From Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy by John M. (John Mullin) Batten

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

He has human frailties—the beautiful song “Say No to This” italicizes them—but he’s a hero, first to last.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2016

And when he prints it, in England, France, Germany, and Italy, he italicizes it, puts some whooping exclamation-points after it, and sometimes explains it in a parenthesis.

From How to Tell a Story and Other Essays 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

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

Baron d’Arce was an example, despite his noble title; as the passage he italicized suggests, his account highlighted Indian freedoms as an incitement toward rebellion.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

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

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

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

Inconsistent italicizing of l., s., and d. has been normalized to italics.

From A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun




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