mainstream
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Bollywood has long mined regional music scenes for reinvention - Punjabi pop, Mumbai hip-hop, Tamil indie - but Reble arrived with a sound still unfamiliar to much of mainstream India.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Some longtime crypto enthusiasts are souring on bitcoin as it goes mainstream, frustrated that it no longer provides the privacy they value.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Covering not just movies and television but also theater and cabaret, Reed, a Southerner who seemed as much a part of Manhattan as the skyline, lorded over the arts with a homogenizing mainstream peremptoriness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
"Hojicha feels like where matcha was two or three years ago," Siddique says, "it's moving from niche to mainstream quite quickly."
From BBC • May 8, 2026
With its soaring steeples, stained glass windows and chiming bells, it was a way more mainstream affair than the little white clapboard number that had spirited Stan away.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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