How to Use popularize in a Sentence

popularize

verb
  • The book presents a popularized version of American history.
  • Dream analysis was popularized by Sigmund Freud.
  • The show must go on, even without the person who helped popularize it.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Golf later popularized the modern sense of a chunk of turf displaced by a club.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Robbins popularized the belief that the mind follows where the body leads.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The concept was popularized in Japan, and has spread throughout the world.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Who popularized this style of business?
    — Mark Dent, HubSpot, 26 Sep. 2025
  • In the mid-’90s Diana helped to popularize all-hours gym wear.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Quiñones was a member of the Lockers crew that helped popularize the locking style of street dance.
    — NBC News, 30 Dec. 2020
  • However, the drug has been popularized for its ability to aid in weight loss.
    — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Because the idea of a mockumentary at that time had not been popularized.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
  • At the time, this wasn't exactly a new idea, but Orléans did help popularize the genre.
    — Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 14 July 2018
  • The picture is a bodegón, a subgenre that Sánchez Cotán helped to popularize.
    — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • Consider this a new take on the true-crime trend that the digital channel helped to popularize.
    — Whitney Friedlander, Esquire, 5 Jan. 2018
  • And her muse, of course, is South African pop singer Tyla, who has popularized the look.
    — Annie Blay-Tettey, Allure, 18 June 2026
  • In so many ways, the Sears kit homes popularized many trends that would shape American housing.
    — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2018
  • It was first popularized toward the tail end of 2024, when skin care stacking and sock curls were at an all-time high.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 26 Dec. 2025
  • But then came the pellet smoker, popularized by Traeger, and as with gas, everything changed.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The china style was popularized in the 1800s.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Tanton would go on to build a network of groups that would implement the logic Ehrlich had popularized.
    — Brian C. Keegan, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2026
  • And the key technique was actually popularized by one of our former Bake club guests, so that's a big hint.
    — Emily Elias, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Culottes are currently in, but the shin-grazing length was once popularized by this original street style star.
    — Andrea Cheng, InStyle, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Red Bull was one of the first brands to popularize slim cans, and White Claw saw success with its hard seltzer in thin white cans.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The introduction of the Chicago street race is also said to have popularized the sport.
    — Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The booklet was released in hopes that the ideas will help popularize a centrist third-party White House run.
    — Kelsey Walsh, ABC News, 17 July 2023
  • The term was popularized by the Sport for Rights campaign in 2015.
    — Aditi Sangal, CNN Money, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Since then, those tropes, popularized by Western films, have reappeared in cycles, Seaton said.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Her devotion to the waltz and polka helped popularize them in the United States.
    — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The news highlights a movement to popularize a gesture to signal distress to passersby.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Puente would go on to popularize Afro-Cuban and Caribbean sounds like mambo and cha-cha-chá.
    — Veronica Villafañe, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022

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