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mainstream

[meyn-streem] / ˈmeɪnˌstrim /


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Thirty two years ago, the first World Cup to be staged in the US helped propel the sport into the mainstream.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

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

PepsiCo has 41 trucks on the road in Arizona, Texas and Arkansas, bringing the technology into the mainstream.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

He said teachers were needed to deliver on government plans to support many more children with special educational needs in mainstream schools by 2030.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Some of them, as unlikely as it seems, are bound to become tomorrow’s mainstream names. might have seemed ten years ago?

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt




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