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
And while Common Side Effects creators Joseph Bennett and Steve Hely were inspired in part by mycology popularizer and mushroom entrepreneur Paul Stamets, the Los Cedros mushroom is merely named after him: Psilocybe stametsii.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2025
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
By the 1980s, the hottest hair style among young African Americans was the Jheri curl, named for its popularizer if not its inventor.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
Fontenelle, a man of wit, and rather a popularizer of science than an original investigator, succeeded Duhamel as secretary.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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