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  • verb Present participle of boldface.

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Examples

  • These include changing font size and color, highlighting in color, boldfacing, italicizing, underlining, and striking through.

    First Look: HTC Arrive, Sprint's first Windows Phone 2011

  • The first boldfacing -- "two or three weeks ago" -- is clearly employed for humorous effect, but in general these interruptions provide a kind of rhythm and a different sort of visual orientation for a prose that otherwise abandons the traditional mechanics of prose.

    Performing Its Own Self 2010

  • The first boldfacing -- "two or three weeks ago" -- is clearly employed for humorous effect, but in general these interruptions provide a kind of rhythm and a different sort of visual orientation for a prose that otherwise abandons the traditional mechanics of prose.

    January 2010 2010

  • The first boldfacing -- "two or three weeks ago" -- is clearly employed for humorous effect, but in general these interruptions provide a kind of rhythm and a different sort of visual orientation for a prose that otherwise abandons the traditional mechanics of prose.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • Well caught, sharp-eyed ones: boldfacing the subheading does indeed violate that particular stricture of standard format.

    Author! Author! » 2010 » February 2010

  • However, since nonfiction manuscripts and proposals have been routinely boldfacing subheadings and only subheadings for over a decade now — those crotchety old-fashioned editors are partially right about the creeping influence of article practices into the book world, you know — I thought that you should know about it.

    Author! Author! » 2010 » February 2010

  • I'm boldfacing this as done, even though it still scares me and I still need practice.

    List of Stuff to Do, Redux Fresca 2009

  • I'm boldfacing this as done, even though it still scares me and I still need practice.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Fresca 2009

  • I'm just going to reprint the article in all its astouding lack of irony, boldfacing lines that particularly give me the chills in their implied meaning.

    Assuring the Palm Beach Crowd Brooks of Sheffield 2008

  • Here are several definitions in US law of terrorism, collected here my boldfacing:

    Archive 2007-09-01 Bardiac 2007

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