popularize

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Japanese pitchers migrating to MLB, including Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, have helped popularize the splitter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 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

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 • Jan. 22, 2026

Nashville-based food blogger and restaurateur Amanda Frederickson has helped popularize the practice of “fridge foraging” on social media.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

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