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boldface

[bohld-fays] / 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

Yet the cavalcade of boldface names and industry players never ends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

Since then, an estimated 6.7 million visitors have made their way inside to take in contemporary art by boldface names, among them Ed Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg, Kara Walker and Mark Bradford.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

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

Other terms seem to be introduced with no rationale other than that they look impressive when printed in boldface type inside a little box in the middle of the page.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

The text of “Service Ready” comes laced with boldfaced aphorisms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

It is a concept album that reckons forcefully with her past — not just the boldfaced part, but also the myriad woes and distortions that conspired to make her feel fearful and less-than.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2024

And the reputational stink once associated with the celebrity “line” of products has diminished with their ubiquity, creating a win-win — or at least no-lose-no-lose — situation for boldfaced names in search of a foothold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2023

The two became not only financial associates but social pals, traveling on Low’s jet with bevies of other boldfaced names to parties all over the world.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2023

The terminology adopted by me for the jaw musculature is in boldfaced italic type.

From Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves by Robert L. Merz

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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