popularize
Example Sentences
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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
The intelligence chief’s curt, deadpan delivery has helped popularize the work of the military intelligence agency, known as HUR, with the public using Budanov’s interviews for widely circulated memes on social media mocking Russia.
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