popularize

[ US /ˈpɑpjəɫɝˌaɪz/ ]
VERB
  1. make understandable to the general public
    Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books
  2. cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
    Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors
    They popularized coffee in Washington State
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How To Use popularize In A Sentence

  • Against those attacks, the defenders of the old faith and the old civilization ap - peal to the venerable argument of allegorism, which had been used in the sixth century B.C., and was later systematized and popularized by the Stoics. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • In psychology, sociology, and cultural criticism the term alienation would be popularized primarily by Jewish thinkers. Emancipation
  • Origin: The phrase, popularized by the unwatchable movie 21, apparently derives from the rich lexicon of craps, which is full of amusingly inscrutable patter. Deadspin
  • Mr. Ettinger's ideas, which he popularized in a 1963 book, "The Prospect of Immortality," spawned what some refer to as the cryonics movement, though by most accounts it is a small endeavor: a scattering of enterprises around the country with dues-paying customers totaling a few thousand, a few hundred of whom have actually been deep-frozen. NYT > Home Page
  • The idea that television can be used as a tool for promoting education and scientific temper among children has been popularised by the SIET, which is under the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development.
  • Peter de Jager, coauthor with Richard Burgeon of Managing 00, helped popularize the term among the netties, as did Dan Rather of the broadcast network netties. No Uncertain Terms
  • Many believers accept the broad seven deadly sins or "capital vices" laid down in the 6th century by Pope Gregory the Great and popularised in the Middle Ages by Aquinas, and by Dante in The Inferno.
  • La Sylphide also popularized the white tutus, freeing the ballerinas from the bondage of stiffening panniers.
  • His 1984 novel "Neuro­mancer" popularized the term "cyberspace," describing the hacker-scripted fantasies of a shared digital realm. NYT > Home Page
  • The paper outlines the situation that Sanxiao experience is popularized for rock drift excavating also its economic efficiency in aspect of promoting driving rate of advance and decreasing cost.
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