Definition of "popularize" [pop•u•lar•ize]

• To make popular: A famous dancer popularized the new hairstyle. (verb-transitive)
• To present in a widely understandable or acceptable form: popularize technical material for a general audience. (verb-transitive)

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• "So maybe a better way to "popularize" poetry -- hell, maybe a better way just to explain it -- would be to further valorize the dead, though with the caveat that the dead include the living."
• "We intend these to encourage and equip believers with new scientific evidence's sic! that support the faith, as well as to "popularize" our ideas in the broader culture…"
• "Freytag did not attempt to "popularize" them by cheap methods."