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boldface

[bohld-feys] / ˈboʊldˌfeɪs /
NOUN
typeface
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But in a city where wealth and power can confer its own kind of celebrity status, the names announced Thursday weren’t among those appearing in boldface in society columns.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

In the early 2000s, England’s so-called Golden Generation was undone by simmering rivalries between the boldface names.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

They are among the boldface names from Los Angeles who have emerged in the latest dump from the Epstein files.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2026

Not only are viewers watching boldface names eat, they’re also watching them eat foods that are considered distasteful — which goes against the prim and proper image that celebrities are expected to uphold.

From Salon Jan. 29, 2024

“Don’t try to boldface your way through this one. That’s a fallacy. You taught me that yourself.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

But Specktor is trying to do something subtler and more slippery than cataloging boldfaced names and bellyaching about how commerce has strangled art.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 2025

But it’s unclear how much the streaming service, known for specials by boldfaced names like John Mulaney and Adam Sandler, cares about minting stars.

From New York Times Dec. 1, 2023

Reflecting the high stakes, Senate candidates have embarked on a frenetic pace of campaign events in the final days, as they trade sharpening attacks and enlist boldfaced names to hit the trail with them.

From Washington Post Nov. 4, 2022

Look at them boys, now! why, if they ain't smellin' at the roses, the boldfaced brats.

From "Some Say" Neighbours in Cyrus by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

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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