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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. 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]

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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.

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  8. Text types - Wikipedia

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    A literary text is a piece of writing, such as a book or poem, that has the purpose of telling a story or entertaining, as in a fictional novel. Its primary function as a text is usually aesthetic, but it may also contain political messages or beliefs.

  9. Slab serif - Wikipedia

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    Some were developments of designs of the previous fifty years: ultra-bold types known as "fat faces", which were related to "Didone" text faces of the period but much bolder. [6] Others had completely new structures: sans-serif letters, based on classical antiquity, and reverse-contrast letterforms.