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mainstream

[meyn-streem] / ˈmeɪnˌstrim /


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He entered the mainstream with his 1969 single, Space Oddity, and went on to achieve 11 number one albums.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

Lozano Sr. had already founded La Prensa in San Antonio when he arrived in L.A. and saw a city in need of a Spanish-language newspaper equal to U.S. mainstream papers.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

After a few years in which mainstream culture at least made noises about retiring the worst excesses of early-aughts thinspo, the pendulum appears to be swinging back.

From Salon Sep. 15, 2026

Panic about the existential threat of AI spread across mainstream America following a warning from a departing Anthropic researcher.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 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

His adherence to representational forms kept him out of several mainstreams earlier this century; characteristically, he experimented with abstractions at a time when many other U.S. artists had given them up.

From Time Magazine Archive




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