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mainstream

[mayn-streem] / ˈmeɪnˌstrim /


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When AI models like ChatGPT first became mainstream, there were concerns that consumers would query chatbots instead of turning to Google.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

But now unregulated peptides have exploded onto the wellness market since GLP-1s, weight loss drugs, became mainstream.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The company built a juggernaut by “tuning into what mainstream America likes,” its longtime designer said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

This year has been decent for film as a whole, but fantastic for documentaries, which have surpassed 2026’s mainstream narrative films in many ways.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

We’re telling blacks that we can fix some of our problems ourselves, that we don’t have to wait to be accepted into the white mainstream to have our day come.”

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

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

Musically, Taylor is a fusion of the three black and white mainstreams of pop: the lonely twang of country, the pithy narrative of folk and the rhythmic melancholy of blues.

From Time Magazine Archive


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