: a prevailing current or direction of activity or influence
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This stereotype rings less true in 2018, when traditional institutions including Goldman Sachs (gs, -0.25%) have climbed onboard, highlighting the nascent industry’s slow-but-sure move into the mainstream.
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Exile in Guyville is a landmark of the early 1990s, a heady time for acts forged with an underground ethos who boldly made their way into the mainstream.
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Now, Brun has embarked on a new project: collaborating with artists from around the world and bringing Haitian sounds into the mainstream as a cultural ambassador for his island home.
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Later that year, Buzzfeed News revealed that Yiannapoulos had been secretly working with a range of white supremacists, including staffers at Daily Stormer and American Renaissance, to soft pedal their ideas into the mainstream.
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Final Fantasy’’ franchise and is credited with pushing Japanese role-playing games into the mainstream, Symonds said.
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Over the years, Singer’s stories, many of which draw on his childhood in Poland or hearken back to Yiddish folk tales and morality stories, have crossed over into the mainstream.
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SAN JOSE— Facebook is bringing augmented reality to the Messenger platform for businesses, the latest attempt to bring this new technology into the mainstream.
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Unlike the typical day-labor pools many homeless people rely on for paychecks, GoodSource aims to help hard-to-place job-seekers build a solid work record to get them back into the mainstream.
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First Known Use of mainstream
circa 1585
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: to place (a student, such as a disabled child) in regular school classes
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: to incorporate in the mainstream
Examples of mainstream in a Sentence
The poor should be mainstreamed into the private health-insurance system.
Ideas that were once controversial have now become mainstreamed.
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Later that fall, the therapist noted that Cruz was going to be mainstreamed full-time beginning in January.
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Since 1975, when the federal government enacted the Education for All Handicapped Children Act – renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1990 — youngsters with serious health problems have been mainstreamed into public schools.
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Later that fall, the therapist noted that Cruz was going to be mainstreamed full-time beginning in January.
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Later that fall, the therapist noted that Cruz was going to be mainstreamed full-time beginning in January.
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The Christian right owes its current influence in part to Bush, who mainstreamed it in ways that his father and Ronald Reagan did not.
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These are just a few out-there sounding trends that are getting mainstreamed at spas around the world.
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Eastwood explores the beefy boys and articulate, domestic moms that mainstream media usually avoids — except for rare TV shows such as This Is Us or Roseanne.
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First Known Use of mainstream
1974
Other Education Terms
MAINSTREAM Defined for English Language Learners
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: to place (a child with special educational needs) in regular school classes
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: to cause (someone or something) to be included in or accepted by the group that includes most people
Medical Dictionary
: relating to or being tobacco smoke that is drawn (as from a cigarette) directly into the mouth of the smoker and is usually inhaled into the lungs — compare sidestream
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