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mainstream

[meyn-streem] / ˈmeɪnˌstrim /


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Founded in San Francisco in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab by Altman, Elon Musk and others, OpenAI burst into the mainstream with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Indeed, Reform's Nigel Farage and Richard Tice were among the first mainstream politicians to regularly talk about visible signs of High Street criminality.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

I’ve watched the sport’s slow rise to the mainstream.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

The singer feels remarkably relaxed about his fame for an artist on the path to mainstream success.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Tchaikovsky wasn’t the first heavyweight Russian composer who wrote in the mainstream international idiom, the same milieu as Beethoven, Berlioz, Verdi or Brahms.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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