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  2. “Bald-Faced” or “Bold-Faced”: Which Is Correct?

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    And Merriam-Webster believes that the use of “bold-faced lie” surged because of the sudden popularity of “bold-faced” as a type of print, like for a newspaper headline—and people ...

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Boldface is often applied to the first occurrence of the article's title word or phrase in the lead.This is also done at the first occurrence of a term (commonly a synonym in the lead) that redirects to the article or one of its subsections, whether the term appears in the lead or not (see § Other uses, below).

  4. Emphasis (typography) - Wikipedia

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    By contrast, a bold font weight makes letters of a text thicker than the surrounding text. [2] Bold strongly stands out from regular text, and is often used to highlight keywords important to the text's content. For example, printed dictionaries often use boldface for their keywords, and the names of entries can conventionally be marked in bold ...

  5. Help:Text formatting - Wikipedia

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    Bold text is stylistically offset from other text without conveying extra importance. The most common use of boldface is to highlight the article title, and often synonyms, in the lead section. Do not use bold text for emphasis. Use ''' to open and close bold text.

  6. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Lead section

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    The lead section may contain optional elements presented in the following order: short description, disambiguation links (dablinks/hatnotes), maintenance tags, infoboxes, special character warning box, images, navigational boxes (navigational templates), introductory text, and table of contents, moving to the heading of the first section.

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    In the bolded text typically appearing at the opening of an article: Any quotation marks that are part of the title should be in bold just like the rest of the title. From "A" Is for Alibi: "A" Is for Alibi is a mystery novel ... Quotation marks not part of the article title should not be bolded. From Jabberwocky: "Jabberwocky" is a nonsense ...

  8. Help:Advanced text formatting - Wikipedia

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    Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of typeface styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing to produce typeset artwork in physical or digital form. The same block of text set with line-height 1.5 is easier to read: Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type ...

  9. Lie - Wikipedia

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    A barefaced, bald-faced or bold-faced lie is an impudent, brazen, shameless, flagrant, or audacious lie that is sometimes but not always undisguised and that it is even then not always obvious to those hearing it. [8]