How to Use popularize in a Sentence

popularize

verb
Definition of popularizenext
Synonyms for popularizenext
  • The book presents a popularized version of American history.
  • Dream analysis was popularized by Sigmund Freud.
  • According to Imo’s, the now-franchised restaurant that opened in 1964 and popularized the style, the choice to use it was the whim of a cook.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Red Bull was one of the first brands to popularize slim cans, and White Claw saw success with its hard seltzer in thin white cans.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In the mid-’90s Diana helped to popularize all-hours gym wear.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The picture is a bodegón, a subgenre that Sánchez Cotán helped to popularize.
    — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • Quiñones was a member of the Lockers crew that helped popularize the locking style of street dance.
    — NBC News, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Calvin Klein was the first to popularize unisex fragrances with the debut of CK One in 1994.
    — Tanya Klich, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
  • At the time, no one would’ve called the looks timeless, but the Y2K style Hilton helped popularize—low-rise jeans and going-out tops—has come back around.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2023
  • There was no vote on the rugby-style push-play that the Eagles popularized in 2022, but the debate around it was contentious.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
  • When first popularized, it was worn by men and women alike, but in the 1920s, U.S. department stores claimed blue for boys and pink for girls.
    — Karena Phan, Fortune, 21 July 2023
  • Robbins popularized the belief that the mind follows where the body leads.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Her devotion to the waltz and polka helped popularize them in the United States.
    — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2021
  • And that's in addition to the many years it's already been trying to popularize VR.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN, 5 Feb. 2022
  • The use of that song, popularized in the movie Titanic, was not authorized, Dion’s team said.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Now, Fitzpatrick pulled off the feat at the same course that helped popularize golf in the United States thanks to Ouimet and his improbable win in 1913.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2022
  • The 2013 release helped popularize the then-fresh blend of reggaeton with current hip-hop and club-style beats.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The booklet was released in hopes that the ideas will help popularize a centrist third-party White House run.
    — Kelsey Walsh, ABC News, 17 July 2023
  • Puck also helped to popularize a concept many take for granted: the open kitchen.
    — Lisa Fung, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2021
  • Puente would go on to popularize Afro-Cuban and Caribbean sounds like mambo and cha-cha-chá.
    — Veronica Villafañe, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Duke Nukem, the 1990s video game that helped popularize the first-person shooter genre, is getting the feature film treatment.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2022
  • In the case of the PC Manager app, the tactic will probably do little to help popularize Bing.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 16 May 2024
  • An innovative take on a fruit-forward recipe popularized in the 1960s, this dessert is worth the revival.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 24 June 2023
  • The rule stopping the clock on first downs dates to 1967, decades before the hurry-up offenses popularized in college games.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Miguel, who records solely in Spanish, was the best-selling Latin artist of the '90s and is credited with popularizing the bolero genre in the mainstream.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Tim League, the founder of the cinema company which helped popularize the idea of dine-in moviegoing, says that Alamo still plans to keep expanding in 2022.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 30 Dec. 2021
  • But in 1973, the family sold their company to Coca-Cola, which used the brand to popularize boxed wines.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
  • His exacting vision has helped popularize the rise of neo-Westerns — stories that take the conventions of the Western genre and place them in the present.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The club also helped popularize baseball in a series of prewar goodwill tours in Japan and Korea.
    — Emilie Ikeda, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Summary Golden milk has been popularized in recent years as a healthy alternative to other hot drinks.
    — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 28 Oct. 2024

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