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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of popularize.

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Examples

  • That's a term popularized by the American Religious Identification Survey, which has tracked 18 years of data by asking more than 50,000 people "What is your religion, if any?" in three surveys.

    How unreligious is America? The Census can't tell us 2011

  • Fortunately, nobody dies in the mommy wars a term popularized by Newsweek 21 years ago.

    'Mommy Track' Without Shame Virginia Postrel 2011

  • Since the financial crisis, investors have increasingly been looking for ways to hedge against so-called Black Swan events, a term popularized by scholar Nassim Nicholas Taleb in 2007, which describes events that are hard to predict and beyond the realm of normal expectations.

    Currency-Based Hedging Gains Favor Neil Shah 2011

  • Romney was talking about "creative destruction," a term popularized by Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter to describe how economies evolve to replace old technologies and spur the creation of new ones.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2012

  • Romney was talking about "creative destruction," a term popularized by Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter to describe how economies evolve to replace old technologies and spur the creation of new ones.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2012

  • This approach is known as the freemium business model, a term popularized in 2006 by Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • In a recent Huffington Post piece, "Planning for the Unimaginable," Terry Newell asserts we must get better at planning for and reacting to so-called "Black Swans" (the term popularized by Nassim Taleb for seemingly unpredictable extreme events).

    Kenneth A. Posner: Planning for a World of Black Swans 2010

  • In a recent Huffington Post piece, "Planning for the Unimaginable," Terry Newell asserts we must get better at planning for and reacting to so-called "Black Swans" (the term popularized by Nassim Taleb for seemingly unpredictable extreme events).

    Kenneth A. Posner: Planning for a World of Black Swans Kenneth A. Posner 2010

  • Within two years the phrase popularized in the Thomas hearings found its way into judicial proceedings: “It was an error for the trial court,” noted an Ohio appellate judge in a dissenting opinion, “to admit such he said–she said testimony.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Within two years the phrase popularized in the Thomas hearings found its way into judicial proceedings: “It was an error for the trial court,” noted an Ohio appellate judge in a dissenting opinion, “to admit such he said–she said testimony.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

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