mainstream
- noun
- /ˈmeɪnˌstrim/
- For many in the mainstream, this approach to life may seem unfathomable and senseless.
- enter the mainstream
- far from the mainstream
- the cultural mainstream
And that has now made its way to the mainstream of right wing politics.
- And that has now made its way to the mainstream of right wing politics.
- That'd be really harder than the mainstream if they have the impact.
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For we know what happens when mainstream centre ground politics fails.
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Now, what does the mainstream media have to say?
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We still get people now in the mainstream media warning us off.
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We are the mainstream voice in politics today.
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What do you think's worse, mainstream media or social media and why?
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And why is it that the mainstream is so bad at these things?
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And so it's moving much more into the mainstream investor space now.
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And now there are, well, say at least three mainstream ethical theories.
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Ireland had become much more anglicised, much more drawn into the mainstream of British culture.
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The NHL is now trying to push hockey into the mainstream of American sports culture.
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Etymology
Mainstream is a simple image: main means 'most important' and stream means 'flow', like a river current. So mainstream is the 'main flow' of ideas or tastes, the way most people think or what is most normal.