italicize

The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was italicize.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2022

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

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

The sentence we italicize below was canceled by Napoleon’s censors, before their master took the shorter method of canceling the book:

From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson

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

He has human frailties—the beautiful song “Say No to This” italicizes them—but he’s a hero, first to last.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2016

In places where this departure from the MS. has been made, he italicizes the words of his translation.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

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

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

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

The italicized language in the description of the referenced email 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

Alas! for the horrible slang of those days, the vapid witless Corinthian talk, with its ogles and its fogles, its pointless jokes, its maddening habit of italicizing a word or two in every sentence.

From Through the Magic Door by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle