American English pronunciation
How to pronounce popularize
IPA transcription: ['pɑpjəlɚ,aɪz]
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Verb
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cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
“They popularized coffee in Washington State”
“Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors”
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make understandable to the general public
“Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books”
Usage examples
- The term was popularized in philosophy by Edmund Husserl.
- The technique was invented and popularized in Hawaii.
- Upjohn also did extensive work in and helped to popularize the Italianate style.
- While Alexandrescu didn't invent the technique, he has popularized it among programmers.
- Wil McCarthy popularized the concept of programmable matter, which he calls "wellstone".
- Patek Philippe popularized the perpetual calendar, split-seconds hand, chronograph, and minute repeater in watches.
- He popularized the classification of birds on the basis of the quinarian system.
- This kind of "quiz" was originally popularized by women's magazines such as "Cosmopolitan".
- Reeder, a fellow Carolinian, was instrumental in developing the style popularized by Little Richard.
- The choreography to the songs on these albums was popularized by the Sexbomb Dancers.