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italicizes

  • present tense form of italicize (3rd person singular).

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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

And when he prints it, in England, France, Germany, and Italy, he italicizes it, puts some whooping exclamation-points after it, and sometimes explains it in a parenthesis.

From How to Tell a Story and Other Essays by Twain, Mark

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