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Contrary to popular belief, the oil companies can't control the price of crude

Chevy Impala, most popular car in the state of California.

Contrary to popular belief: there is no such phenomenon as "pure" pastoralists, a society that subsists on its herds alone.

A more popular belief at the time was that water at great depth would be compressed to such a density that nothing could sink through it.

But there is this popular mental image people have of an artistic genius producing a masterpiece in total solitude.

In popular language this was the era “when dinosaurs ruled Earth,” when a wide variety of reptile species occupying many ecological niches.

For example, placing an ad here for a big roomie van, which is popular with big families would make sense, but a snappy sports car with only two seats?

Well that article was in a popular magazine, not a scholarly journal for historians.

That's distinct contrast from the other main branch of popular storytelling, which is folk tales.

Chocolate sauce is always popular with youngsters.

Tea became extremely popular in China, and scholars even wrote works discussing how to grow tea, prepare it, drink it, really championing tea.

Working here at the Student Activity Centers made me realize how popular our activities are.

Realism as a literary technic was most popular in U.S. literature from around 1860 till 1890.

And at the same time that realism was becoming popular, there were a lot of political and socioeconomic changes happening in the country.

Now, I'm guessing it wasn't too expensive or time-consuming for Levitt to come up with this idea, but it was certainly efficient and hugely popular with families.

He talks about popular literary genres, like penny newspapers and dime novels, which were being published in mass quantities.

He worries about people no longer thinking for themselves and uncritically accepting all this cheap popular literature and the trivial details of the news.

Hmm, well, the most popular theory that's been proposed is the plume hypothesis.According to this hypothesis, plumes,

And like any popular theory, I suppose, it has some determined critics.

Well, it seems like Professor Altman is a really popular actor.

Geisel's work was hugely popular among beginning readers and their parents, but it wasn't always considered literature or subjected to serious academic inquiry until relatively recently.

The strength of the Athenian aristocracy was further weakened during the rest of the century by the rise of a type of government known as a tyranny, which is a form of interim rule by a popular strongman (not rule by a ruthless dictator as the modern use of the term suggests to us).

And these things were popular?

Yes. They may have been the most popular features of the gardens.

Exactly. I think it’s fair to say that the sound of the electric guitar typifies the rock ‘n’ roll genre, which became popular in the 1950s.

The Japanese classes are quite popular.

I guess ‘cause it’s a popular topic people want to read about?

But he was not a fan of the Romantic style of music that was popular in his homeland during his youth.

And in the early 1900s, composers who worked in the Romantic style were the most popular in Austria-Hungary.

He looked at the countryside for the music of the farmers and the people who lived in small towns, and their music, well, you could say he discovered the music that was popular in those areas.

What if screen dance got so popular that it replaced live dance?

The organ, which dates back to the Middle Ages, as do other keyboard instruments, such as the harpsichord which is still popular today with some musicians.

But when Europeans came, they started hunting the beavers for their fur, because beaver furs were really warm and it was really popular for making hats in Europe, so the beavers were hunted a lot, overhunted; they were almost extinct by the 1800s.

The triumph of sound cinema was swift, complete, and enormously popular.