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[meyn-streem] / ˈmeɪnˌstrim /


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All along, the moment shows, capable thinkers have still been able to find doors into the mainstream media, not to mention doors to new kinds of visibility via YouTube, X and Substack.

From The Wall Street Journal • 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

Yet, black representation was cutting through the American mainstream - whether through Carole Gist making history as the first black woman to win Miss USA, or the explosive rise of hip-hop.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

But mainstream figures in science and the military disdained RW as ineffective, impractical, and immoral.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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