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Recent Examples of popularizeCropped close to the head and brighter than the average phone screen, the look has been popularized by actress Emma Stone and, as of this week, internet perma-crush Keke Palmer.—Morgan Fargo, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2025 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.—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 See All Example Sentences for popularize
Annabelle has been in so many movies now, to the point of being overused (the real doll has even been suspected of paranormal activity recently).
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Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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.
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The Athletic Tennis Staff,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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.
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Carl Anka,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
If most of your liabilities reprice simultaneously, you’re overexposed.
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