italicize
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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
Most of the horses we had had along these Normandy high-roads, had answered to names that had helped to italicize the features of the country.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
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
There is some dispute about whether the new guidance captures Thomas’ conduct for the first time ever, or if it merely bolds, italicizes, and underlines what should’ve already been obvious.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2023
That metric underlines, italicizes and bolds McIlroy's steadiness from start to finish in the 2018-'19 season.
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 26, 2019
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
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
After his 10-catch performance against the Seahawks, Nacua did not warrant an italicized word in the headline for emphasis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
But Bennet didn’t write the bloated, italicized nostra culpa, according to informed sources — it was a committee product headed by the standards desk, with extensive involvement from Sulzberger himself, sources say.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022
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
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
The most frustrating bug, though, is its insistence on italicizing text unbidden.
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
Something of this is reflected in the enormous amount of needless italicizing with which the typography of the book is afflicted, and which we trust will be amended in future editions.
From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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