Example sentences for: popularized

How can you use “popularized” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While we're at it, why not outlaw all words and expressions we've purloined over the years from specialized fields--such as melancholy, hectic, chronic , and allergic (medicine); leading question , time is of the essence (law); by and large, high and dry, slush fund, round robin, aloof (sailing); ego, extrovert, complex, phobia, psyche, depression, trauma, subconscious (same place as empathy); and many more of what Fowler called popularized technicalities.

  • Back in 1994, when journalist Robert Wright popularized the field of evolutionary psychology with his book The Moral Animal , he wrote an article on ev psych and feminism in which he acknowledged that evolutionary psychology would be used to "naturalize" sexist behavior.

  • We must only hope that our Pakistani friend does not get to sound too much like the aforementioned Mr. Russert--or any of the other Sabbath gasbags, to use the phrase that the wonderful Frank Rich has popularized.

  • More precisely, he's a "pretribulational dispensationalist," an unwieldy label that refers to two separate but intertwined beliefs that were popularized in the early 1800s by John Nelson Darby, an English minister and a special sort of screwball genius whose ideas later spread to America.

  • The WP goes inside with a new nationwide study of high-school disciplinary practices, which, it says, shows that in the two years since "zero tolerance" anti-violence policies were popularized, black students at the schools surveyed have been expelled or suspended at a rate disproportionate to their numbers.


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