mainstream
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The beneficiaries, he predicted, will be mainstream "popcorn movies": "You don't need to think. There's no creative. That's just calculation."
From Barron's • Jun. 19, 2026
Other than the Bible, it was the bestselling book in 19th-century America, and it brought the abolitionist movement to mainstream awareness as no politician or orator had done before it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
In other words, the first viable space data centers may serve space-based customers before they compete with mainstream cloud data centers on Earth.
From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026
Am I so cruelly esoteric that mainstream ideas of gayness do nothing for me?
From Salon • Jun. 18, 2026
The guard is mainstream society’s last representative; the inmate, its most marginal man.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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