Sentence examples for popular usage from inspiring English sources

With such widespread popularity, the name "care package" (the acronym was lowercased in popular usage) quickly carried over to any shipment of supplies to service personnel, college students, inmates or anyone away from home.

The phrase "diploma mills" came into popular usage during the era.

Popular usage will, of course, be the ultimate arbiter of the durability of fail.

Harding brought the little-known word into popular usage, though many thought he'd made it up.

But in the long term, the dictionary, by its very definition and goal, follows popular usage.

In popular usage the term ḥuppa may refer to the wedding ceremony itself.

As a gamer myself I've seen pwn countless times and I don't think anyone can deny its popular usage.

Although considered a part of Amazonia by the Brazilian government and in popular usage, it is technically a separate system.

In popular usage, a theory is a speculation, not necessarily supported by evidence, and only in that sense is intelligent design a theory.

Frankfurt concedes that in popular usage "bullshit" is employed as a "generic term of abuse, with no very specific literal meaning".

Two of the three new Australian slang additions for this edition are actually old words, but their entry into the dictionary suggests a surge in popular usage.