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Looking back to the early days of snowboarding, then called snurfing and popularized by inventor Sherman Poppen in 1965 in Muskegon, Michigan, Made in the Mitten follows the pow-filled history of this wintertime sport.

For now, SpaceX appears to be leading the drive to popularize space tourism.

She helped popularize the New Orleans sound called bounce and notched a famous Beyoncé sample along the way.

From Ozy

These are only a few examples of the complex issues that popularized narratives about a “reading war” obscure.

Affirm, a business that has helped popularize a “buy now pay later” trend for Internet shopping, offered its shares to the public on Wednesday.

From Fortune

During that time, his efforts to popularize it did not make him any friends.

Twilight Park, being the resort of literary people and their friends, did much to popularize log houses with city people.

He has done much to popularize the fascinating art of white magic.

Wishing to popularize the Beowulf, he used as a medium of translation a peculiarly stilted kind of blank verse.

We shall have her with us—a beautiful young woman would popularize our cause beyond anything.

I have a great plan in view: to popularize the legends of Islam and other strange faiths in a series of books.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to popularize, such as: catch on, disseminate, promote, revive, simplify, and familiarize.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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