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mainstream

[meyn-streem] / ˈmeɪnˌstrim /


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Hitting wonks have long espoused the importance of swinging faster—the concept seems almost obvious—but the idea of prioritizing it burst into the mainstream in 2024 when MLB began publicly releasing bat speed data.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

But Hejazi says its use in drinks and desserts is still "an emerging trend" and hasn't yet hit the mainstream in the UK.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

That campaign worked better than the mainstream campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

The moment hits at the tenuous relationship between religion and queerness, one that often goes unexplored in mainstream queer media.

From Salon Aug. 28, 2026

Indeed, one of the reasons musicians from all over Europe flocked to hear Wagner’s music dramas at Bayreuth in the 1870s was because they were so radically out of step with the mainstream.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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

From Salon Dec. 7, 2014

It’s an old-fashioned element of bohemianism to act as envoys between margins and mainstreams.

From Slate Dec. 18, 2013

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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