mainstream
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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
After his stint in prison, Sullivan's attention turned to more mainstream publishing.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 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
Through a web of laws, regulations, and informal rules, all of which are powerfully reinforced by social stigma, they are confined to the margins of mainstream society and denied access to the mainstream economy.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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