Citations:embolden

English citations of embolden

To render (someone) bolder or more courageous; to encourage, to hearten.
- 2020, William H. Greene, Econometric Analysis, Pearson, page 334:
  The author lamented that the power of techniques involving instrumental variables and natural experiments to uncover causal relationships had emboldened economists to venture into areas far from their traditional expertise […]
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(typography) To format (text) in boldface.
- 1999, George [A.] Grätzer, “Typing Text”, in First Steps in LATEX, Boston, Mass.: Birkhäuser; New York, N.Y.: Springer, →ISBN, page 8:
 This note introduces several additional features of LATEX: […] ▪ The use of text style commands, including the \emph command to emphasize text, the \textbf command to embolden text, and the \texttt command to produce typewriter style text.
- 2000, David Baker & David Miller, Key Maths, page 10:
 To embolden text in a cell, array or column
 
 Click in the cell, array or highlight the column and then click on the embolden text symbol, shown on the right, or use Format menu, Cell, Alignment, Centre (in the horizontal) (a similar process to that for word processing).
- 2004, Jason Whittaker, “Web Design”, in The Cyberspace Handbook, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part III (Reading/Writing Cyberspace), page 216:
 The [HTML] tags indicate paragraphs breaks, and we have included some basic text formatting: for emphasis (typically italics), for underline and to embolden text.