italicize
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To italicize the point, perhaps, the fruit plate is a dollar cheaper than the ice cream.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 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
But vandalism’s crude delinquency merely serves to italicize Prince’s theme.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2017
He kept in the offing, so that if she wanted him she could call him, but he thought it the politer politeness not to italicize his chivalry.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry
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
Her physical comedy, kinetic and rubbery, constantly shifting and shameless, italicizes everything.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
That metric underlines, italicizes and bolds McIlroy's steadiness from start to finish in the 2018-'19 season.
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 26, 2019
And when he prints it, in England, France, Germany, and Italy, he italicizes it, puts some whopping exclamation-points after it, and sometimes explains it in a parenthesis.
From The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories by Twain, Mark
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
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
There’s a little too much mugging, italicizing and elbow-nudging, as if we might not be able to enjoy Sondheim’s unsparing wit on our own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
Size is important too: The best practice, according to the University of Edinburgh’s Disability and Inclusive Learning Service, is to use 14-point font and avoid writing in block letters or italicizing or underlining text.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2023
Can you help me figure out how to stop the unwanted italicizing?
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2022
This paragraph, in which the italicizing is mine, contains Max Muller's theory in a nutshell.
From Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by Fiske, John
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STAAR Grade 5 Reading: Informational Text, List 2
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