Definition of "popularized" []

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

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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."
• "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."
• "Fortunately, nobody dies in the mommy wars a term popularized by Newsweek 21 years ago."