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The group’s breakout 1985 single “I Wonder if I Take You Home” echoed in the dance clubs before crossing over into mainstream radio and landing the No. 34 spot on the Billboard Hot 100.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Safety is not the only barrier to bringing gene editing into mainstream healthcare.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Door decorating is a thing on all mainstream cruise lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

But it now has a much more mainstream usage, as a playful put-down or a compliment, depending on the context.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

“It’s not about anything real. Like, it’s not set in mainstream society or anything.”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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