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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

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

While passive, follow-the-index strategies that Vanguard helped popularize have become dominant in stocks, many investors still favor active funds in the more-complex bond markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 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

It came about because Kepler wrote one of the first works of science fiction, intended to explain and popularize science.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

A man invents a vacuum cleaner and ... a co-conspirator popularizes Venetian blinds, so there will be something else for the vacuum cleaner to do in a jiffy.

From Time Magazine Archive

It embraces and popularizes every subject that can be thought of.

From My Cave Life in Vicksburg With Letters of Trial and Travel by Mary Ann Loughborough

A prominent AI researcher, Goertzel and DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg popularized the term “artificial general intelligence” in the early 2000s.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Together, Gail and Dave Liniger popularized an unorthodox business model, in which agents kept 100% of commissions in exchange for paying a fee to Remax for advertising and other management costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

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

This was all occurring thirty years before the hit television show Glee popularized the notion—which even now is more an idea than a reality in most high schools—that a top athlete would participate in drama.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

These mid-century dream teams revolutionized American theater by popularizing the integrated musical, a form which leveraged classic operetta elements like song and dance as narrative tools.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 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