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Recent Examples of popularize
Publications like Scientific American and accounts of the Perry Expedition to Japan helped popularize the concept.
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Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Omaha Productions of course, is the production company founded by Peyton Manning, which helped popularize the alternative broadcast format with the Monday Night Football Manningcast on ESPN.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
William Howard Taft was the first president to throw out a ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game in 1910 and, as legend had it, helped popularize the seventh-inning stretch.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
The success of the album helped popularize the 12-inch LP in popular music.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2025
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Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Omaha Productions of course, is the production company founded by Peyton Manning, which helped popularize the alternative broadcast format with the Monday Night Football Manningcast on ESPN.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
William Howard Taft was the first president to throw out a ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game in 1910 and, as legend had it, helped popularize the seventh-inning stretch.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
The success of the album helped popularize the 12-inch LP in popular music.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 15 Sep. 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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Gregg agrees that gray has been overused as a whole.—
Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
11 Jan. 2026
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Their answers, unsurprisingly, skew toward once-trending hues that now feel tired and overused.—
Angelika Pokovba,
Martha Stewart,
5 Jan. 2026
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Symptoms such as hot flashes and mood changes are well known, and often stereotyped, but experts worldwide want to highlight that women face a huge range of changes to their bodies during the menopause – and lack of awareness means many will start experiencing symptoms without knowing why.—
Sashikala VP,
CNN Money,
4 Dec. 2025
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Among many challenges, the next president of the church will navigate how to lead a global church from its American headquarters – a church that continues to be misunderstood and stereotyped, sometimes to the point of violence.—
Brittany Romanello,
The Conversation,
10 Oct. 2025
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Only a few years after her 21st birthday extravaganza, Paris Hilton had been overexposed.—
Serena Turner,
Vanity Fair,
29 Dec. 2025
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Film, even if it’s overexposed, underexposed, or correctly exposed, has a unique quality to it.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Nov. 2025
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“Popularize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/popularize. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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