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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bolden .
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Examples
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#475 Reggie and bizarro-I boldened the part on minorities because ElBruce denied that the House Bill had provisions set forth that was affirmative action on steroids.
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The b element represents a span of text to be stylistically offset from the normal prose without conveying any extra importance, such as key words in a document abstract, product names in a review, or other spans of text whose typical typographic presentation is boldened.
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Look at the countries that are now strengthening - Russia, Brazil, Venezuela, Iran - all have tapped into their oil fields and are boldened by the resultant economic power.
Is it Greenspan's fault? Ann Althouse 2008
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I must not be average then,Ive boldened the ones Ive read, Those that are left , theres none I intend to read.
Thanks to Peter Black -Books I love em Valleys Mam 2008
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Progress is often impeded in any travels, but progress is at least boldened with the knowledge that you are pointed in the right direction.
Think Progress » Stephanopoulos: Hastert ‘hanging by a thread.’ 2006
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The crust was yeasty and chewy, heavenly salty and boldened by the wood-fire stove.
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I am boldened to proclaim I am what I appear to be, and have aimed rightly and struck my mark wisely.
Appearances Young Geoffrion 2006
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I am boldened to proclaim I am what I appear to be, and have aimed rightly and struck my mark wisely.
Archive 2006-10-01 Young Geoffrion 2006
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And they seem to be coming more and more -- as we said before -- more boldened, you know, more brazen.
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Her dark eyes, which the wine seemed to have cleared and boldened, swept me up and down, taking me in, making sure perhaps whether or no she had ever seen me, and what sort of a brute I might be.
Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900
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