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- verb Present participle of
popularise .
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Examples
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Ace film maker and director, Mr. Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, representing the organisers at a press parley held early in the week, informed that the festival, heavily backed by the Nigerian High Commission in Canada, is conceived as a direct response to the idea of popularising Nollywood movies, especially in North American countries.
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Their subject was the possibilities of "popularising" the new cosmology of the great French astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace, whose work, Mécanique céleste, was regarded as second only to Newton's Principia.
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The AU's Executive Council established and charged the Committee of 10 with the responsibility of "popularising" and mobilising support for Africa's position regarding the reform of the UN
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-- That ideas should be forwarded for "popularising" Parliament.
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The present, however, is an age for "popularising" knowledge; and your work has assumed that task as one of its functions.
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It also blamed TV shows and the internet for "popularising" hatred.
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'gutted,' and form articles in magazines, illustrated by the original plates; lectures, after having served their primary purpose, are published in a similar manner; even scientific works now appear first in the magazines which are devoted to science before performing their mission of 'popularising' their subject.
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As mathematician Marcus du Sautoy begins his new job popularising science, he explains why most of us have the wrong idea about maths
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But Kenrick, unlike many popularising authors, displays a fine scientific modesty and generosity to the reader in pointing out where different explanations are possible.
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I urge the Police to seek and destroy all literature relating to Christopher Robin for popularising this kind of disgraceful behaviour.
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