as in to popularize
to use so much as to make less appealing
the composer's masterpiece has been hopelessly vulgarized by its use in countless TV commercials
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Recent Examples of vulgarize
His versions were full-blooded, with lush strings and reasonably large orchestras — and, purists alleged — vulgarizing distortions.
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BostonGlobe.com,
28 Oct. 2019
Ever since his rise to power, Trump has served as a vulgarizing agent.
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Leon Neyfakh,
Slate Magazine,
2 June 2017
BostonGlobe.com,
28 Oct. 2019
Ever since his rise to power, Trump has served as a vulgarizing agent.
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Leon Neyfakh,
Slate Magazine,
2 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vulgarize
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Meanwhile, Meta's WhatsApp has 500 million people in India using its messaging services, but is struggling to popularize its payment tool, WhatsApp Pay, in the country's hyper-competitive digital payments space.
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Kirk helped popularize some of the principles of Seven Mountains, introducing the idea of the seven spheres to his millions of followers.
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Along with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, the foundation also partners with schools and community institutions to educate the challenging effects of stereotyping, unconscious bias, and representation imbalance of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and persons with disabilities.
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Brousson jokingly stereotyped the Waffle House staffers as having active warrants, picking their nose with the spatulas and smoking cigarettes while battling third-degree grease burns.
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Although the word ‘hero’ is greatly overused in today’s society, in my mind, Calvin Duncan is a hero in the truest sense of that word.
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Meanwhile, existing antibiotics have been overused, and resistance has mounted to critical levels.
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At 3x, the Razr+'s image processing tried to save the shot by overexposing the dish, but unfortunately, my dinner just looks like an inedible oil painting with a glossy sheen.
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They can get dehydrated and overexposed to the sun and are unable to cool down.
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The message is that in a world full of endless choices, commitment and sticking to one thing isn't boring, and can in fact bring you the ultimate joy.
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He’s been bored of this war for a while, and in the West Wing, there was a race to be done with it.
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“Vulgarize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vulgarize. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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