italicize
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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
Occasionally, he had to push back against publishers who wanted to italicize or Anglicize Swahili and Arabic references and phrases in his books, he said.
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
In these excerpts I italicize the important statements, and I follow each with a contradictory one of my own.
From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin
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
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
There are moments in this novel when Ms. Robinson unnecessarily italicizes and telegraphs Lila’s emotions.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2014
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 Lightfoot, Joseph Barber
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
The skips in time that occur in the play are unnecessarily italicized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
I have italicized the words that make this requirement a very low bar.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2024
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
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
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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
As for your particular problems using LibreOffice, yes, I have seen similar reports of unwelcome issues with the suite’s clipboard and 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
This change in degree of motion is, however, often used for emphasis only, as is the raising of the voice in speech or italicizing and capitalizing in print.
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