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Social media and professional sport have helped popularize everything from ice baths and compression garments to massage and recovery supplements.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

He helped popularize Egyptian jeel music: a genre that incorporates elements of reggae and pop, while maintaining a distinctly Egyptian sound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

When Tesla announced its plans for the Semi nearly a decade ago, it was seen as a chance to change heavy-duty trucking just as its affordable and versatile Model 3 helped popularize electric cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

Since Robinhood helped popularize commission-free trading, introducing a new generation of investors to buying and selling securities on their smartphones, trading volumes in U.S. equity options have exploded.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026

It came about because Kepler wrote one of the first works of science fiction, intended to explain and popularize science.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Ultimately, gaming may well end up being what popularizes the metaverse.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2022

Since then more than 15 million people have watched the documentary on Upworthy, which aggregates and popularizes videos and other online content.

From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 1, 2013

He’s been on his own now for a couple of decades, a philosopher-showman with an immense following whose art popularizes Post-Minimalism’s strategies with the use of big, accessible themes.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2010

Under Johnson's leadership, Fidelity popularizes the mutual funds that bring millions of small investors into the stock market, in time for the 12-year bull run that adds more than $1 trillion to the national wealth.

From Time Magazine Archive

It embraces and popularizes every subject that can be thought of.

From My Cave Life in Vicksburg With Letters of Trial and Travel by Mary Ann Loughborough

The images date back as far as the 1840s when the Daguerrotype process that popularized photography and made images printed on silver-plated copper sheets common keepsakes.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

What was once fodder for their ostracization now captivates the imagination of millions — and has been popularized in movies and TV shows, from “Interview With the Vampire” to “Wednesday.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The startup Pickle on Thursday joined the agent craze with a “personal AI you raise,” a concept popularized by Tamagotchis in the 1990s.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

Fans rave about the shoes’ vintage looks and lighter feel compared with the thick-soled sneakers popularized by other brands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Before the war, people raised a thumb to say “One love” to each other, an expression popularized by the love and influence of reggae music.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

In the present-day AI boom, OpenAI is generally credited with popularizing the MTS, Jayden Clark, the Silicon Valley culture commentator behind the viral X account @creatine_cycle, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● May 9, 2026

It’s easy to adore the star in the mid-to-late 1950s when he’s young and svelte, scandalizing and delighting America with his wiggly hips, popularizing a new sound dubbed rock ‘n’ roll.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Kalshi is slowly popularizing markets for things you’d have never thought to bet on five years ago, at least not at scale.

From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2025

A boom in swimming pool construction tied to the post-war suburbanization of the state was another factor popularizing an idealized California lifestyle built around leisure and recreation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2024

The software industry did the first by creating and popularizing a protocol known as SMTP—simple mail transfer protocol—which enabled the exchange of e-mail messages between heterogeneous computer systems.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman