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popularizer

American  
[pahp-yuh-ler-ahyz-er] / ˈpɑp jə lərˌaɪz ər /

noun

  1. a person or organization that presents or promotes something in a way intended to make it popular popular.


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Arnaz gained celebrity as the American popularizer of the conga, an Afro Cuban line dance that his father had once tried to ban.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025

And while Common Side Effects creators Joseph Bennett and Steve Hely were inspired in part by mycology popularizer and mushroom entrepreneur Paul Stamets, the Los Cedros mushroom is merely named after him: Psilocybe stametsii.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2025

This “ic”-y history begins in 1946, when its key popularizer, the improbably named Brazilla Carroll Reece, a veteran Tennessee congressman, was selected as chair of the Republican National Committee.

From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2023

By the 1980s, the hottest hair style among young African Americans was the Jheri curl, named for its popularizer if not its inventor.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022

His relation to Kant is neither that of an opponent nor of a supporter and popularizer.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

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