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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

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

But vandalism’s crude delinquency merely serves to italicize Prince’s theme.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 9, 2017

In these excerpts I italicize the important statements, and I follow each with a contradictory one of my own.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

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

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

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 Lightfoot, Joseph Barber

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

More of Singer’s italicized phrases followed in the lengthy statement, as well as a threat that Chase was exposing herself to “significant liability.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 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

The italicized language in the description of the referenced exchange is paraphrased, not directly quoted.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

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

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

General Baden- Powell says, italicizing the words: "The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive."

From The Art of War by Sunzi (6th cent. BC)




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