noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a popularity contest (= to decide which person people like the most )
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The competition has turned into a popluarity contest.
a popularity poll (= measuring how popular someone is )
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In most popularity polls, he is in fourth or fifth place.
an approval/popularity rating
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His popularity rating remains high.
gain popularity
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Governments gain popularity by cutting taxes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
continuing
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Among the problems it faces are: the continuing popularity of the service amongst the general public.
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This has been used as evidence of the continuing popularity of marriage.
enormous
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In spite of her enormous popularity and the huge attraction she held for men throughout her life she remained incredibly insecure.
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The Columbia program was enjoying enormous popularity because it offered the widest possible latitude both in studies and in its entrance requirements.
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In the West its enormous popularity was as a love story set against the epic background of the Revolution and its aftermath.
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These are all reasons for Schiffer's enormous popularity .
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Rawlings's friends and foes alike say he survived only because of the enormous popularity with which he began his rule.
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The museum authorities wanted the work removed after the filming was completed despite the statue's enormous popularity .
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These, as they appeared one by one in the pages of the Strand Magazine, attracted enormous popularity .
great
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Portacaval shunt surgery has not enjoyed great popularity because of the very high incidence of postoperative encephalopathy in the elderly.
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The area of its greatest popularity seems to be in Addergoole Parish, Ireland.
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Imagine the losses that must have occurred in them during the years of Harrogate's greatest popularity .
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The program gained a great deal of popularity among state and local officials as well as in Congress.
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Funk, which in the late seventies was enjoying great popularity in the South and Midwest, was rarely on their playlists.
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It is this psychological underpinning which explains the sudden great popularity of the story.
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In fact, the clarity that Kathy Switzer describes is one of the reasons for the great popularity of the sport.
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However, Historical Romances achieved even greater popularity during the two decades that followed.
growing
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The growing popularity of the telephone is not, however, without its problems.
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Banks appear to be growing in popularity: a year ago only 17 percent would have bought life cover through a bank.
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And there was further evidence of the growing popularity of Waterstones and Dillons vouchers.
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One theory for its growing mainstream popularity is that contemporary values are merging with country sentiments.
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Nor do they deny the growing popularity of Bolshevik rather than Menshevik slogans and strategy in the pre-war years.
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One reason for the later age at marriage is the growing popularity of premarital cohabitation.
immense
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That sense is still lacking on the World Wide Web, despite its immense popularity .
increasing
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An additional factor is the increasing popularity or cremation.
personal
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Mr Ashdown's personal popularity is also reflected in a separate Gallup poll measuring the standing of the parties.
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The end result was a sort of Ponzi scheme of personal popularity that had its parallels in the markets.
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He then used his personal popularity and legitimacy to win public support for his regime.
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But Reagan was unable to transfer his great personal popularity into support for his policies.
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Mrs Thatcher was, of course, strongly identified with the tax and her personal popularity plummeted as a consequence.
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A former consultant gastroenterologist at Stobhill Hospital Sir Thomas has enjoyed personal popularity .
political
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In Chechnya he quickly gained political popularity , was elected president and declared his republic an independent nation in 1991.
■ NOUN
contest
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It will be a popularity contest .
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Popularity is nice, but this is no popularity contest .
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Like most goods, stocks are a kind of popularity contest .
rating
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The president's popularity ratings are at a record low.
■ VERB
achieve
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His is the only post-war body of symphonic and chamber music to achieve genuine popularity .
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However, Historical Romances achieved even greater popularity during the two decades that followed.
decline
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Over the years, zoos have declined in popularity .
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After many years of declining popularity , the lowly rhubarb is making a comeback in both gourmet and gardening circles.
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After that it declined rapidly in popularity .
enjoy
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Norbrook also recognises that the love lyric was not the only type of verse to enjoy popularity in the Renaissance.
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Funk, which in the late seventies was enjoying great popularity in the South and Midwest, was rarely on their playlists.
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Alesis reverb units are par for the course in home studios; and their 3630 should enjoy the same popularity .
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The Historical Romance attracted numerous new practitioners and for the next several decades it enjoyed widespread popularity .
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No-one has enjoyed such popularity over such a wide range of colleagues from the very junior to the very senior.
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And Mazursky was reassuring in noting that hot toy items typically enjoy popularity for three to five years, then fade.
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They knew that Nkrumah enjoyed a popularity which none of them could emulate.
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The Columbia program was enjoying enormous popularity because it offered the widest possible latitude both in studies and in its entrance requirements.
explain
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It is this psychological underpinning which explains the sudden great popularity of the story.
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Meat's taste, for example, can not explain its popularity , for flavour is not an absolute quality.
gain
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But it has gained amazingly in popularity .
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Another, newer type of yeast is gaining in popularity .
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So why is complementary medicine gaining popularity ?
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A strategy rapidly gaining popularity is to use three of them at once.
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Although still carrying the hallmarks of a true fishing port, Padstow is fast gaining ground in the popularity stakes.
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His fortunes slip as competing styles gain popularity .
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The desire to cut taxes Governments gain popularity by cutting taxes, not by increasing them.
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Talk radio and talk television hosts, mostly but by no means all conservative, are proliferating and gaining influence and popularity .
grow
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Skating is responsible for the growing popularity of nordic resorts in Northern California.
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Unit-linked policies by and large have performed fairly well over the last few years and have consequently been growing in popularity .
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The quest for big game has grown in popularity .
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Cohabitation between marriages has also grown in popularity .
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The center has grown in popularity .
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Programs for interactive analysis, such as Egret, S, and its derivative SPlus, are growing in popularity .
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Wraps growing popularity makes them easily accessible.
increase
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There's still a growing gap between the rich and poor, despite the increasing popularity of the Internet.
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Frozen food has greatly increased in popularity ever since Clarence Birdseye popularized frozen peas during the 1920s.
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The Youth Club has increased in popularity this session and has a thriving expanding membership.
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However, according to many suppliers, pasta shapes are rapidly increasing in popularity .
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Employee trusts Employee trusts have increased in popularity over the past decade or so as a method of providing incentives for employees.
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Threats to expropriate, always a gimmick to increase popularity , never materialised.
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With golf still increasing in popularity , this upward trend shows no sign of abating.
lose
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But it continues to lose popularity - for all the wrong reasons.
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As President Boris Yeltsin has lost popularity , he has made concessions to nationalist views.
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The President wants a motorcade because the polls show he is losing popularity by the minute.
rise
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Quickly rising in popularity due to its magnificent white sand beach, Kuantan is one of the east coast's finest resorts.
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Changing reader habits are also spurring the rising popularity of alternative weeklies.
win
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It now has to become a modern social democratic party which can win because of the popularity of its vision.
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Activity in these roles absorbs most of his time and energy: it will win him the popularity essential to his reelection.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in the popularity/fashion etc stakes
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Although still carrying the hallmarks of a true fishing port, Padstow is fast gaining ground in the popularity stakes .
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They are running neck-and-neck in the popularity stakes .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Lee's popularity started to fade somewhat.
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The popularity of cellular phones has grown in the last five years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A high number of singular military displays more than took up the slack, riding a post- Desert Storm popularity wave.
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Another, newer type of yeast is gaining in popularity .
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Attempts to denigrate his playing simply because of his popularity are misplaced but regrettably widespread.
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But prolonged recession and high unemployment knocked his popularity down to rock-bottom.
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Cohabitation between marriages has also grown in popularity .
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Margaret profited too from her sister's popularity and the relaxation in rules.
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Nicholas Ferrar's wide popularity is quite recent.
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Rawlings's friends and foes alike say he survived only because of the enormous popularity with which he began his rule.