boldface
Americannoun
adjective
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of boldface
Vocabulary lists containing boldface
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He has tangled with authorities in multiple states and broadcasts his moves on social media, including to boldface followers like Loomer and the musician Moby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Yet the cavalcade of boldface names and industry players never ends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
But many outlets, such as this one, presented the speech with the lines used in the ad in boldface, so anyone could see there was no misrepresentation of Reagan’s general feelings about trade and tariffs.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025
Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter’s memoir, ‘When the Going Was Good,’ chronicles the glamour, the power and the boldface names from the golden age of magazine publishing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
“Don’t try to boldface your way through this one. That’s a fallacy. You taught me that yourself.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
The text of “Service Ready” comes laced with boldfaced aphorisms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
But Specktor is trying to do something subtler and more slippery than cataloging boldfaced names and bellyaching about how commerce has strangled art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
It is a concept album that reckons forcefully with her past — not just the boldfaced part, but also the myriad woes and distortions that conspired to make her feel fearful and less-than.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
Before that, though, he enjoyed hobnobbing with an ever-growing roster of boldfaced names in the entertainment and business worlds.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023
Newspapers ran long articles on Cynodon dactylon and the editors of their garden sections were roused from the somnolence into which they had sunk upon receiving their appointment and shoved into doubleleaded boldfaced position.
From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
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
He says Indeed tried to find a way to keep it on the label just by boldfacing the first letters of Lavender Sunflower Date.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2016
But when historians chronicle the early 2000s, Hurlburt gambles, they’ll be boldfacing “War on Terror” in their textbooks.
From Time ● Feb. 15, 2013
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