popularizer
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Arnaz gained celebrity as the American popularizer of the conga, an Afro Cuban line dance that his father had once tried to ban.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2025
A significant popularizer of yokai was the 18th-century scholar and artist known as Toriyama Sekien, who compiled an encyclopedia of creatures drawn from his imagination.
From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2023
Launcher of a thousand off-the-shoulder sweatshirts, popularizer of leg warmers: it's "Flashdance" and the film turns 40 this year, just like some of us are or have too.
From Salon • Apr. 15, 2023
This “ic”-y history begins in 1946, when its key popularizer, the improbably named Brazilla Carroll Reece, a veteran Tennessee congressman, was selected as chair of the Republican National Committee.
From Slate • Jan. 21, 2023
You have never heard true condescension until you have heard academics pronounce the word "popularizer."
From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James
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