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popularize

[pop-yuh-luh-rahyz] / ˈpɒp jə ləˌraɪz /


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A bunch of AI-lab ETFs recently arrived to the market, including one centered around OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, which had helped popularize artificial intelligence after it was introduced to the public in late 2022.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Social media and professional sport have helped popularize everything from ice baths and compression garments to massage and recovery supplements.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

He helped popularize Egyptian jeel music: a genre that incorporates elements of reggae and pop, while maintaining a distinctly Egyptian sound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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

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

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

Under Johnson's leadership, Fidelity popularizes the mutual funds that bring millions of small investors into the stock market, in time for the 12-year bull run that adds more than $1 trillion to the national wealth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fries adopts and popularizes Kant's results, while he rejects Kant's method.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

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

The name is a nod to the women’s suffrage movement and was popularized by a 1912 textile industry strike in Lawrence, Mass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

But it was Dante’s funnel-shaped map of a kingdom of torments, with its nine concentric rings, that popularized the notion of circles of Hell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

Even Voltaire, who avoided the dialogue between a philosopher and a lady, a form popularized by Fontenelle, liked to imagine his book being read by a sophisticated woman at her dressing table.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The Apple TV series “Ted Lasso” is supposed to primarily be a wide-appealing comedy, yet its role in popularizing soccer in the U.S. can’t be dismissed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Jonas also likes the 1920s play “R.U.R” by the Czech playwright Karel Čapek, which is credited with popularizing the word “robot.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Meanwhile, the investment firm Vanguard has been credited with popularizing low-cost and diversified index funds.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

Kalshi is slowly popularizing markets for things you’d have never thought to bet on five years ago, at least not at scale.

From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2025

Borel was followed by two other works of popularizing science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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