Word: popularization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...motion of Neptune. So that was the famous Planet X. And eventually, Clyde Tombaugh in Arizona discovered a planet, which got named Pluto. Not by an American, though, because an American would never have named it after a highly advertised, highly marketed laxative of the same name that was popular then...
...like to say that we're getting beachfront property at trailer-park prices," says A.J. Khubani, founder and CEO of TeleBrands, another popular purveyor of infomercialesque merchandise. He says his company is buying better time slots for nearly 25% less than it paid in 2007. Commercials for TeleBrands products, which include nail clippers for pets (PediPaws), now appear during The O'Reilly Factor, the most popular show on Fox News...
...true that new media have helped polarize politics by creating echo chambers of agreement. But the kind of social media the Obama campaign used, like Facebook, also help people broaden their spheres and see how they are connected with people who are different from them. And they're popular among the same young people who are turned off by the old political dualisms and categories...
Cell-phone novels haven't caught on in the U.S.--yet--but we have something analogous: fan fiction, fan-written stories based on fictional worlds and characters borrowed from popular culture--Star Trek, Jane Austen, Twilight, you name it. There's a staggering amount of it online, enough to qualify it as a literary form in its own right. Fanfiction.net hosts 386,490 short stories, novels and novellas in its Harry Potter section alone...
...Afghanistan is bigger and more populous than Iraq, with harsher terrain and a literacy rate one-third as high. It has no real history of centralized government; a fictional border with Pakistan, which militants cross with ease; an economy based largely on drugs; and a leader who--although still popular in the U.S.--is widely considered a disaster at home...