mainstream
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"Garage music, before it became mainstream, it was a real movement and it was very British," she tells Newsbeat.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
White has credited the president’s devotion to the sport with propelling it into the cultural mainstream, and he is predicting a record-breaking global audience.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
In fact, 42% of Americans use a VPN, making it no longer a niche privacy tool but a mainstream one.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 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
I opted to put us both on the road almost immediately after we got there, to save both of us the pointless aggravation and strain to try and fit into a foreign mainstream group.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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