popularization
Americannoun
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By 2021, the president of Uzbekistan had signed a national decree, “On measures for the further development and popularization of chess and enhancing the system of training chess players.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 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
California’s regulatory climate encouraged innovations like the low-emission engine Honda produced in the 1970s, the three-way catalytic converter Volvo pioneered later that decade and Tesla’s popularization of electric vehicles.
From New York Times • May 30, 2023
Fairly or unfairly, to her derogators Pittman epitomized all that was reprehensible about Dick Bass’s popularization of the Seven Summits and the ensuing debasement of the world’s highest mountain.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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