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• n  someone who makes attractive to the general public

• As a popularizer of the Bakersfield sound, named for the California town that was a destination for Dust Bowl refugees like himself, Owens used honky-tonk vocals and rock-'n'-roll .
• In 1941, he became a famous popularizer of semantics with his bestseller Language in Action.
• Harry Twyford Peters, 66, coal merchant, latter-day popularizer of Currier Ives, owner of the world's largest (5,000) collection of their prints; after long illness; in .

• populariser
• vulgarizer
• vulgariser

News & Articles

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• Steve Vai Reflects On Seven-String Guitar Legacy Recap
  Seven-string guitars are a big deal right now, and Steve Vai is arguably the instrument's most important popularizer, bringing it to prominence at a time when the lowest most players were tuning was Eb.
  June 9, 2013 - antiMUSIC

Quotes

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• Yukihiro Takahashi in Taipei Times
  I was the popularizer, the communicator,says Takahashi.
• Carl Sagan in Washington Post
  The job of a science popularizer,Sagan said, "is to penetrate through the teachings that tell people they're too stupid to understand science."