popularization
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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By the 1990s, the spread of personal computers enabled the growth and popularization of the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
Look no further than the therapeutic objective of trinkets like Sonny Angels for young working women, or the popularization of festooned coffees among Gen Z and millennials as a form of self-care and escapism.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2025
I think what eyeliner says about beauty standards in that specific context, the popularization of Nefertiti was that they were not fully ready to revise their beauty standards.
From Salon • Dec. 30, 2023
Astronomers and astrologers pin the popularization of moon epithets to the rise of the internet.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2023
Even today there are scientists opposed to the popularization of science: the sacred knowledge is to be kept within the cult, unsullied by public understanding.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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