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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

For Apple, there’s a business case to be made, but the Pro’s price means touch-screen Macs won’t be mainstream for a while.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 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

In addition to serving as presidents, educators, and businessmen, the Ulster Scots instilled in mainstream US culture a strong set of Calvinism’s individualist values.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

Radio formats created, I’ll argue in this book, multiple mainstreams: distinct, if at times overlapping, cultural centers.

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2014

It’s an old-fashioned element of bohemianism to act as envoys between margins and mainstreams.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2013

"Marriage, as it exists today, is antithetical to my liberation as a lesbian and as a woman, because it mainstreams my life and voice," she says.

From Time Magazine Archive


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