mainstream

adjprevailing

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adj prevailing

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Word Origin & History

also main-stream, main stream, "principal current of a river," 1660s, from main (adj.) + stream (n.); hence, "prevailing direction in opinion, popular taste, etc.," a figurative use first attested in Carlyle (1831). Mainstream media attested by 1980 in language of U.S. leftists critical of coverage of national affairs.

Example Sentences for mainstream

The largest group outside the community's mainstream was the black agricultural workers.

When the mainstream of evolution on Darkover left the trees to struggle for existence on the ground, a few remained behind.

This species may have utilized the mainstream as a refugium in the drought of 1952-'56.

Normally the water was about six inches deep in the mainstream as it ran over a riffle adjacent to the catfish nest.

With the return of continuous flow and a consequent rise in turbidity, bass declined in abundance in the mainstream.

My specimen may represent a small population that retreated to the mainstream of the Neosho during drought.

A fantastic way to earn a living, close to the mainstream of human vanity.

And where, for the first time, the American mainstream includes all of our disabled citizens.

We have a responsibility to make them welcome here, and they have a responsibility to enter the mainstream of American life.

There is evidence that the theory of Nursing as Caring has entered the mainstream of nursing thought.

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everyday

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