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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
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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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