What is "popularize"

Usage examples of "popularize".

We may usefully popularize chemistry and electricity, their teaching and their experimentation, even if only as one way of cultivating human powers.

On a show business level, Kaine was slick as goose grease and this kind of popularized scientific transcendentalism was his stock in trade.

Popularizing campaigns on the part of the ubiquitous Lubavitcher sect, particularly on the streets of large American cities, have also called attention to these Jewish mystics.

The tool was ill-designed for the task: Chadwick was better at popularizing baseball statistics than he was at thinking through their meaning.

Similarly, in The Manchurian Candidate, one of scores of Hollywood movies popularizing lies about McCarthy, the McCarthy figure chooses fifty-seven as the number of Communists in the government after seeing it on a bottle of Heinz ketchup.

We learned that a very large proportion of diseases get well of themselves, without any special medication,--the great fact formulated, enforced, and popularized by Dr.

Brady had popularized them but thought they were cheapening the art of photography.

Moe Strickland, the veteran character actor who popularized the role of Uncle Ely, said the stricken performers are resting quietly at Baptist Hospital in Miami, and are expected to recover.

There was a 1958-style coonskin cap, the kind popularized by Fess Parker in the Disney movie about Davy Crockett, perched on its head.

The American scientist Benjamin Franklin first popularized the notion of electricity as a single fluid that could produce electric charges of two different types, depending on whether an excess of the fluid were present (positive charge) or a deficiency (negative charge).

He had meant to write a series of books, to popularize the new realism as Schopenhauer had popularized pessimism and William James pragmatism.

In the popularized version, anyway, that matched the superficial titles.

You popularized the Cluster Tarot and the notion that true belief, rather than its particular form, was the essence of faith and that no religion should question the mode or precepts of any other.

The view, so instinctively offensive now, was widely popularized in many respectable places until fairly recent times.

Besides, anything that popularizes the true nature of science is worth a little time and trouble, don't you think?