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mainstream

[meyn-streem] / ˈmeɪnˌstrim /


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With Parsons now adapting the Backrooms for a feature-length horror thriller, the strange fictive world is rapidly entering mainstream discourse.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

I don’t consider myself in the mainstream one bit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

"Apple is about to do for foldables what it has done for every category it has entered, which is legitimise it for the mainstream," said Francisco Jeronimo at telecommunications analyst group IDC.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

The league needed credibility and he gave it something even broader: mainstream celebrity.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Ben says most books have mainstream society’s misguided ideas about how a life should be lived written right into the fabric of their stories.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

After campaigns ended, they typically folded into the parties’ mainstreams and became leaders in subsequent electoral cycles.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Each had previous experience in political office, and all fell within the ideological mainstreams of their respective parties.

From Salon Sep. 17, 2017

Radio formats created, I’ll argue in this book, multiple mainstreams: distinct, if at times overlapping, cultural centers.

From Salon Dec. 7, 2014

It’s an old-fashioned element of bohemianism to act as envoys between margins and mainstreams.

From Slate Dec. 18, 2013

"Marriage, as it exists today, is antithetical to my liberation as a lesbian and as a woman, because it mainstreams my life and voice," she says.

From Time Magazine Archive




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