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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

The interrobang of the subtitle is a mashup of the question mark and the exclamation point that a New York ad man tried to popularize in the 1960s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

Strategy, formerly known as Microstrategy, helped popularize the concept when it started buying large amounts of bitcoin in 2020.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 20, 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

In his old age he ruefully remarked that "ridicule does not kill, it popularizes."

From Time Magazine Archive

This part of his work will be found very valuable, as it popularizes a subject which has few attractions for most readers.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various

The images date back as far as the 1840s when the Daguerrotype process that popularized photography and made images printed on silver-plated copper sheets common keepsakes.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

Fans rave about the shoes’ vintage looks and lighter feel compared with the thick-soled sneakers popularized by other brands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Hosts of spiritual-minded sorts called it home: Alan Watts popularized Zen Buddhism in the ’60s, alongside poets Gary Snyder and Kenneth Rexroth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The terminology we now use to express this distinction, between primary and secondary qualities, was introduced by Boyle in 1666 and popularized by Locke in 1689.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

It’s easy to adore the star in the mid-to-late 1950s when he’s young and svelte, scandalizing and delighting America with his wiggly hips, popularizing a new sound dubbed rock ‘n’ roll.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Sydney, “Christy” is the story of Christy Martin, a pioneer in popularizing women’s boxing in the 1980s and 1990s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

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

Digby, a friend of Hobbes and a founding member of the Royal Society, played a crucial role in popularizing the word ‘fact’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton