verb
- Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use.
- usage: "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
- synonyms: popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise
- Make understandable to the general public.
- usage: "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"
- synonyms: popularise
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