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[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

Samsung and Apple are likely trying to find a more mainstream audience for foldables, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 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

There was massive access to new kinds of media that hadn’t existed in the mainstream just five years earlier.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

At this point, the mainstreams of the major parties are pretty close together.

From Slate Jun. 28, 2016

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

From Salon Dec. 7, 2014

Musically, Taylor is a fusion of the three black and white mainstreams of pop: the lonely twang of country, the pithy narrative of folk and the rhythmic melancholy of blues.

From Time Magazine Archive




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