italicize
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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
“They want you to italicize it or even put a glossary. And I think no, no, no, no.”
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
But vandalism’s crude delinquency merely serves to italicize Prince’s theme.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2017
I italicize the heart of the phrase, because it is italicized in my memory.
From Your United States Impressions of a first visit by Arnold Bennett
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
Her physical comedy, kinetic and rubbery, constantly shifting and shameless, italicizes everything.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
That metric underlines, italicizes and bolds McIlroy's steadiness from start to finish in the 2018-'19 season.
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 26, 2019
Our author in his reply quotes this note, and italicizes the passages as they are printed here.
From Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" by Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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
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
The italicized language in the description of the referenced exchange is paraphrased, not directly quoted.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
While we’re at it, let’s just stop italicizing passages entirely.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
Can you help me figure out how to stop the unwanted italicizing?
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
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
This paragraph, in which the italicizing is mine, contains Max Muller's theory in a nutshell.
From Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by John Fiske
Vocabulary lists containing italicize
STAAR Grade 5 Reading: Informational Text, List 2
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