popularized

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In the first few years of the company, he popularized comic series based on movies such as “Star Wars,” “Aliens” and “Predator.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

One advocate of this approach is author Benny Lewis, who popularized a communicative learning approach he calls “language hacking” which focuses on the language skills needed for conversation.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

The model builds on the original “Misery Index,” a measure popularized in the late 1970s, which simply added up the inflation rate and the unemployment rate to gauge economic pain for households.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

The exposition popularized a host of snack foods that would become staples of American life, including ice-cream cones, peanut butter, hot dogs, hamburgers and cotton candy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Napoleon had popularized the word, which had first been used by the French philosophe Destutt de Tracy, whom Jefferson had read and admired enormously.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis