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italicize

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


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Jon Balke’s score is a spare accompaniment that knows when to italicize the unease and when to color in the serenity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

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 John Calvin Reed

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

Mr. Lucci gives Gross immense dignity without shrinking at all from his flamboyance; he italicizes italics and turns sibilance into music.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2018

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

The website for Oura, maker of the smart ring that tracks your heart rate, movement and other health metrics, features screenshots of its app interspersed with reassuring reminders in italicized serif.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 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

From 1997 to 2000, Maryland wore black helmets with an italicized red “M” and the state flag.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 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

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

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

When the editor underscores a word, the Chinese compositor charges $9 extra for italicizing it.

From Remarks by Bill Nye




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