popularizer
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- noun
- /ˈpɑpjəˌlaɪzər/
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popularizador
- The documentary served as a popularizer of environmental issues, educating viewers about climate change.
Let me ask one of the popularizers, you said there's many through this.
- Let me ask one of the popularizers, you said there's many through this.
- So, you know, one of the kind of cool examples that I I like is in in a popularizers book, Hayakawa wrote about this.
Examples
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A maverick, a popularizer, a woman.
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The democratic process relies on popularizers of ideas in order to produce a well-informed electorate.
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There are a few popularizers.
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Bill Buckley, the popularizer, laid the foundation for the conservative movement.
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Tiny Houses introduces itself as a popularizer of the so-called small house movement.
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Throughout his life, he was a tireless lecturer and popularizer.
Academic text (1992) -
Gastev edited several major industrial journals, held various government positions, and was one of the leading Soviet popularizers of Taylorism.
Academic text (1999) -
During it, he also emerged as a highly visible—and entertaining—science popularizer.
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Carl Sagan was a remarkable popularizer of science, making complex concepts accessible to everyone.
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As a successful popularizer of healthy eating, she inspired many people to change their diets and lifestyles.
Synonyms
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A person who explains ideas or information clearly to others
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A person who gets news and media attention for someone or something
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A person who supports and encourages a cause or idea
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A person with many followers on social media who gets paid to promote products or ideas
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A person who shares information or news with other people
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A person who spreads news or ideas to other people
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A person who strongly promotes a product, idea, or cause
A person who makes hard ideas easy for many people to understand
A person or thing that makes access to something fairer for many people
A person or group who makes something known to many people to promote it
Antonyms
How Accessible
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- Jargon
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Surface Forms
Morphology
popularizer = popularize (transparent) = popular + ize + er
The word is transparently formed from the verb 'popularize' plus the agentive suffix '-er', meaning 'one who popularizes'.
Etymology
The word popularizer comes from popular (from a word for 'the people') and the verb popularize, which means 'to make popular', plus the ending -er meaning 'a person who'. So a popularizer is someone who makes a subject easy to understand and liked by many people.