Sooner rather than later, it loses its referent and becomes a freestanding idiom; people use the familiar phrase out of voguish habit, forgetting the source that initially popularized it.

The game of eight-ball is derived from an earlier game invented around 1900 (first recorded in 1908) in the United States and initially popularized under the name "B.B.C. Co.

McLaren also performed as a solo artist, initially popularizing hip hop and world music and later diversifying into funk/disco, the dance fashion for "vogueing" and merging opera with contemporary electronic musical forms.

The presentation of the Japanese economy in terms analogous to a business corporation, seems to have been popularized initially in describing the constraints that foreign business was likely to find when selling goods in Japan.

Several New York musicians who had already been performing Cuban dance music for decades when salsa was popularized initially scoffed at the term.

Initially popularized by Randy Stoklos.

It first appeared in Côte d'Ivoire in 1986 and became popularized initially in university campuses in Abidjan.

The term, popularized initially by the Saturday Night Live sketch, received new life following Schwarzenegger's usage.

A positive review in the San Francisco Examiner initially popularized the bakery.

The Baptist Bookstore initially popularized the painting, distributing various sized lithographic images for sale throughout the southern United States.