: a prevailing current or direction of activity or influence
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And if customers take Pornhub up on the offer, that could help cryptocurrencies in general go more mainstream.
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But just like Trump's use of a profanity to describe African nations — and the largely uncorroborated Steele dossier itself — the allegation has been pushed into the mainstream.
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Watching the Spaniard put the green jacket on Woods would ignite the sporting world, thrusting golf back into the mainstream.
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Electric cars are here and seemingly about to break into the mainstream, but what about electric boats?
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The feds first raised the issue back in 2007, well before the second-generation Toyota Prius would push hybrids into the mainstream.
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In April 2013, mere months prior to Bitcoin’s entry into the mainstream, Dave died after a long battle with MRSA.
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Mike De Sisti Dashboard cameras, known for dramatic police videos and shots of meteors streaking across the sky, have gone mainstream as more people document their experiences on the road.
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After more than a year of gathering online celebrity, Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist, YouTube star, and culture warrior, has finally burst into the cultural 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.
Recent Examples of mainstream from the Web
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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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Far from mainstreaming the supposedly simplistic and deranged voices on Twitter, some of the most powerful media organs in this country are publishing diverse opinions on this subject.
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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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