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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
popularize .
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Examples
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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.
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Fortunately, nobody dies in the mommy wars a term popularized by Newsweek 21 years ago.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This approach is known as the freemium business model, a term popularized in 2006 by Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures.
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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).
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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).
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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.”
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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.”
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