Lay
Popular
Popular adjective - Enjoying widespread favor or approval.
Lay and popular are semantically related in non-specialist topic. Sometimes you can use "Lay" instead an adjective "Popular".
Both words in one sentence
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His popular success as President and his assassination also largely killed American prejudice against at least lay Roman Catholics as a minority group.
Source: Useful Notes / John F. Kennedy -
These spots are popular places for dragons to lay eggs and raise young because of the protective influences of the area's spirit.
Source: Genius Loci - Franchise Zombie - A Zomedy Screwed by the Network Spinoff in the vein of The Book of Bunny Suicides, featuring "Those shows that clearly want to lay down and die, but The Network keeps ressurecting them 'cause they're so popular" as zombies wearing their show's costume.
Source: Just For Fun / Trope Title Shows
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Popular and Lay. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lay/popular
Lay & Popular. N.p., 2016. Web. 02 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/lay/popular>.
Popular or Lay. 2016. Accessed August 02, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/lay/popular.
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