popularize
verb (used with object)
to make popular.
popularise
-
a variation of
popularize.
Example Sentences
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First released on the Xbox 360, Gears helped to popularise "cover-shooter" gameplay, which encouraged players to shelter from enemy attacks.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The Japanese giant helped popularise console discs in the 1990s after launching its first PlayStation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Naturalist and author Stephen Moss posted that Oddie "did more than anyone to popularise birding".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Having helped popularise art and museum-going, he is hoping to have the same effect on the written word.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
He was apprenticed, when more than twenty years old, to Mr. Tomson, engraver, and soon felt a desire to popularise and extend the art.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
