Definition of "popularised" [popularised]

• Simple past tense and past participle of popularise. (verb)

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• "It is a term popularised by therapists in television dramas, but it rarely has any bearing on real life experiences of tsunamis, rail crashes or terror attacks."
• "The fusillade of gas, incendiary bombs and guided missiles that wreck their ancient habitat is described as "shock and awe", the term popularised by the US military assault on Baghdad that opened the Iraq war in 2003."
• "I'm of the belief that the much-maligned Scream 3 was itself a parody of the franchise, which by that stage had been - to use a term popularised by the 1996 original - gutted, spoofed and replicated so many times that all the tricks had already been played."