popularize
verb (used with object)
to make popular.
popularise
-
a variation of
popularize.
Example Sentences
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The film was adapted from a video game he helped popularise with online clips.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
Soccer-themed documentaries have proliferated in recent years, with the 2023 hit Netflix series about David Beckham helping popularise the genre.
From Barron's ● May 16, 2026
Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes, who helped popularise bossa nova and samba with Western audiences, has died at the age of 83, his family has confirmed.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024
Mr Stephney said he worked hard to obtain a prized cassette of Roxanne Shante, a female rapper who helped popularise the diss track at 14 years old in New York.
From BBC ● May 11, 2024
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
