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mainstream

[mayn-streem] / ˈmeɪnˌstrim /


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It burst into the mainstream with 2022’s “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” its first movie to gross more than $100 million worldwide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Surging demand for the medication, a shortage in production from mainstream manufacturers, along with a desire to pay less for it, has made room for the creation of compounded GLP-1s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The definition is supported by mainstream Jewish organisations and has been adopted by 47 countries, including the UK, as well as most British universities.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

On “Heal My Faith,” the rapper who first gained mainstream attention by lighting the pop chart’s sacred cows afire wonders why we can’t all just get along.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

Why would these young men openly endorse and perpetuate the very stereotypes that are invoked to justify their second-class status, their exclusion from mainstream society?

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

Whether those volumes make their way into foreign mainstreams remains to be seen, read and discussed.

From Time Magazine Archive


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