popularize

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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

Since Robinhood helped popularize commission-free trading, introducing a new generation of investors to buying and selling securities on their smartphones, trading volumes in U.S. equity options have exploded.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

Early advertising campaigns helped popularize terms like "litterbug," while today the focus has shifted to "chemical recycling," promoted by industry as a way to break plastics down into their basic building blocks.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Nashville-based food blogger and restaurateur Amanda Frederickson has helped popularize the practice of “fridge foraging” on social media.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

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