popularize
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Ben Rosen, an influential Wall Street analyst and venture capitalist who helped popularize personal computers, died on Aug. 23 at the age of 93.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Sports columnist Bill Simmons, who helped popularize the format, recently moved his podcasts to the platform in January as part of a deal with Spotify.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 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
Pilar Ternera was the one who contributed most to popularize that mystification when she conceived the trick of reading the past in cards as she had read the future before.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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
In his old age he ruefully remarked that "ridicule does not kill, it popularizes."
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
It was popularized by a famous Barron’s article in March 2000 that helped prick the bubble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
A prominent AI researcher, Goertzel and DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg popularized the term “artificial general intelligence” in the early 2000s.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Over the past year, the “TACO” trade has evolved from just a humorous acronym, first popularized by a columnist with the Financial Times, into a major force in markets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Thought leader Eliezer Yudkowsky, who originally popularized safety concerns about AI, initially believed that AI would be friendly but has since adopted the view that AI could lead to human extinction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The terminology we now use to express this distinction, between primary and secondary qualities, was introduced by Boyle in 1666 and popularized by Locke in 1689.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
The progressive pollster Sean McElwee became a minor celebrity for popularizing the phrase.
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2026
Starbucks repackaged Italy’s coffee ritual for American tastes, popularizing the iced coffee craze through its Frappuccinos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
Like it or not, fashion has become a key vehicle for popularizing art and design history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
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
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