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italicize

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


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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

The Obama paintings, each figure shown seated and depicted roughly life-size, are stylistically different from each other, although both italicize aspects of the sitter’s personality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2021

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

"Miracles do not happen:"—'t is plain sense, If you italicize the present tense; But in those days, as rare old Chaucer tells, All Britain was fulfilled of miracles.

From Gawayne and the Green Knight A Fairy Tale by Charlton Miner Lewis

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

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

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 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

The ensemble recreates the communal energy of the characters, though sometimes what’s italicized in the script might have been more potently conveyed with underplaying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2025

I have italicized the words that make this requirement a very low bar.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2024

The book opens with a meditation on moss in her apartment, and in each chapter, there’s a parallel journey, a handful of italicized paragraphs that break up the text, typically along with photos.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 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

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

Can you help me figure out how to stop the unwanted 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

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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