popularize

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Early advertising campaigns helped popularize terms like "litterbug," while today the focus has shifted to "chemical recycling," promoted by industry as a way to break plastics down into their basic building blocks.

From Barron's

Intriguingly for a town that popularized the Hollywood happy ending, many of the movies we most identify with end on a downbeat note, roughly half of them.

From Los Angeles Times

Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” popularized the term in the late ’70s, and by the next decade, it was a household phrase.

From Salon

Hirsch’s father, Yale Hirsch, founder of the Stock Trader’s Almanac, popularized the Santa Claus rally indicator back in the early 1970s.

From MarketWatch

Hirsch’s father, Yale Hirsch, founder of the Stock Trader’s Almanac, first popularized the Santa Claus rally indicator back in the early 1970s.

From MarketWatch