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SpaceX’s $60 billion all-stock purchase of Cursor, a programming assistant that popularized “vibe-coding,” makes Musk a player in corporate AI in a way that his Grok chatbot hasn’t.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

The Fitbit, launched in 2009, popularized that concept and then was acquired by Google a decade later.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

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

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