popularize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to make popular; make attractive to the general public
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to make or cause to become easily understandable or acceptable
Other Word Forms
- antipopularization adjective
- depopularize verb (used with object)
- popularization noun
- popularizer noun
- repopularization noun
- repopularize verb (used with object)
- semipopularized adjective
- unpopularized adjective
Etymology
Origin of popularize
Example Sentences
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Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” popularized the term in the late ’70s, and by the next decade, it was a household phrase.
From Salon
Hirsch’s father, Yale Hirsch, founder of the Stock Trader’s Almanac, popularized the Santa Claus rally indicator back in the early 1970s.
From MarketWatch
Hirsch’s father, Yale Hirsch, founder of the Stock Trader’s Almanac, first popularized the Santa Claus rally indicator back in the early 1970s.
From MarketWatch
The intelligence chief’s curt, deadpan delivery has helped popularize the work of the military intelligence agency, known as HUR, with the public using Budanov’s interviews for widely circulated memes on social media mocking Russia.
As the late Yale Hirsch, the market analyst who developed and popularized the concept, once put it: “If Santa Claus should fail to call, bears may come to Broad and Wall.”
From MarketWatch
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