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
Vocabulary lists containing popularize
Example Sentences
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Japanese pitchers migrating to MLB, including Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, have helped popularize the splitter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Since Robinhood helped popularize commission-free trading, introducing a new generation of investors to buying and selling securities on their smartphones, trading volumes in U.S. equity options have exploded.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026
Sherry Zhu, 23, helped popularize habits like drinking hot water, eating boiled apples and wearing slippers around the house.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
“Depop is on a mission to make fashion circular,” by helping to popularize secondhand fashion and drive resale culture in the U.K., the U.S.,
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
Pilar Ternera was the one who contributed most to popularize that mystification when she conceived the trick of reading the past in cards as she had read the future before.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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