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There’s a saying, first coined by Maya Angelou, that’s been repopularized in recent years: “If someone shows you who they are, believe them.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

If ambitious cash stockpiling were to catch on, it could exacerbate secular stagnation, a term that the Harvard University economist Lawrence H. Summers repopularized to describe the low-growth, low-inflation state of many advanced economies.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2020

The jerkin was repopularized in the 21st century by Louis CK.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2017

After decades of disuse, the term was repopularized in the seventies and eighties by people of color and queer communities—this time as a gesture of defiance.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 14, 2017

French mathematician Blaise Pascal repopularized it when he republished it and used it to solve a number of probability problems.

From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015