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That film served as Carpenter’s follow-up to his breakthrough hit, Halloween, which didn’t invent the slasher film but did codify and popularize the horror subgenre in which seemingly deathless masked killers stalk helpless prey, often horny teens (though anyone will do in a pinch).
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Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
15 June 2026
By the mid-to-late-20th century, mass media helped popularize diets that promised rapid results through calorie restriction or highly specific food choices, such as the grapefruit diet and cabbage soup diet.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
10 June 2026
Martha Van Rensselaer, who with her life partner Flora Rose later helped popularize the field of home economics, was born in Randolph, New York.
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USA Today,
9 June 2026
SmartSweets helped popularize the category early on with gummy bears that once packed 28 grams of fiber in one bag, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
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Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
4 June 2026
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Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
15 June 2026
By the mid-to-late-20th century, mass media helped popularize diets that promised rapid results through calorie restriction or highly specific food choices, such as the grapefruit diet and cabbage soup diet.
—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
10 June 2026
Martha Van Rensselaer, who with her life partner Flora Rose later helped popularize the field of home economics, was born in Randolph, New York.
—
USA Today,
9 June 2026
SmartSweets helped popularize the category early on with gummy bears that once packed 28 grams of fiber in one bag, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
4 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for popularize
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His versions were full-blooded, with lush strings and reasonably large orchestras — and, purists alleged — vulgarizing distortions.
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Ever since his rise to power, Trump has served as a vulgarizing agent.
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Although the word ‘hero’ is greatly overused in today’s society, in my mind, Calvin Duncan is a hero in the truest sense of that word.
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Meanwhile, existing antibiotics have been overused, and resistance has mounted to critical levels.
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Along with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, the foundation also partners with schools and community institutions to educate the challenging effects of stereotyping, unconscious bias, and representation imbalance of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and persons with disabilities.
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Brousson jokingly stereotyped the Waffle House staffers as having active warrants, picking their nose with the spatulas and smoking cigarettes while battling third-degree grease burns.
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At 3x, the Razr+'s image processing tried to save the shot by overexposing the dish, but unfortunately, my dinner just looks like an inedible oil painting with a glossy sheen.
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They can get dehydrated and overexposed to the sun and are unable to cool down.
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