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Recent Examples of popularize
It's recently made another resurgence, and companies like Sensa are hoping to finally popularize the sport in the United States by launching clubs in major cities like Nashville, New York and Miami.
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Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
The deal, led by industry giant MCR Hotels, follows a series of financial struggles for the private member club operator, which pursued rapid global expansion and helped popularize a new generation of less formal and business-oriented member clubs.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Earlier this year, Nintendo helped popularize the microSD Express standard by requiring it for the new Switch 2 console.
—Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 15 Aug. 2025
The essay popularized the concept of the male gaze, classical Hollywood cinema’s propensity to address, embody, and shape film spectators as heterosexual and male.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025
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Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
The deal, led by industry giant MCR Hotels, follows a series of financial struggles for the private member club operator, which pursued rapid global expansion and helped popularize a new generation of less formal and business-oriented member clubs.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Earlier this year, Nintendo helped popularize the microSD Express standard by requiring it for the new Switch 2 console.
—Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 15 Aug. 2025
The essay popularized the concept of the male gaze, classical Hollywood cinema’s propensity to address, embody, and shape film spectators as heterosexual and male.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for popularize
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His versions were full-blooded, with lush strings and reasonably large orchestras — and, purists alleged — vulgarizing distortions.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
28 Oct. 2019
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Ever since his rise to power, Trump has served as a vulgarizing agent.—
Leon Neyfakh,
Slate Magazine,
2 June 2017
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The redemption story is overused in sports, but Anisimova coming back from a double-bagel Wimbledon final defeat against Iga Świątek to beat the same player a couple of months later was extraordinary.—
The Athletic Tennis Staff,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, resharing others’ posts or overusing carousels significantly underperforms.—
Justin Nassiri,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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But while working mom and trad wife stereotypes reign online and in popular culture, many moms fall somewhere in between those two tropes.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
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These words have different meanings in the context of AAVE, some say, and using them in a way that appropriates or stereotypes certain people groups strips away the importance of the original definitions.—
Mia Thurow,
jsonline.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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United’s decade-plus of footballing dysfunction owes a partial debt to hiring processes that can make sense in the moment, but leave head coaches overexposed.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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If most of your liabilities reprice simultaneously, you’re overexposed.—
Meelan Gupta,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Popularize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/popularize. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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