: a prevailing current or direction of activity or influence
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While there are many working examples, especially on the blockchain platform Ethereum, their technological complexity has kept them out of the mainstream.
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The late radio host Walt Bodine, who jerked sodas in his father’s drugstore there, would say that far east in Kansas City was always a bit out of the mainstream.
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The Mellencamp factor Indiana rock star John Mellencamp works exceedingly hard these days to steer clear of the mainstream, but Nashville acts are out there putting his name in the ears of new listeners.
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But frontman Tom DeLonge - the one with the angsty, adolescent singing voice - had been nurturing an offstage hobby that was decidedly out of the mainstream.
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But frontman Tom DeLonge — the one with the angsty, adolescent singing voice — had been nurturing an offstage hobby that was decidedly out of the mainstream.
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Barr may be cast out of the mainstream, but she’s be welcomed by a supportive community of like-minded people on Twitter.
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Will the Democrats come forward with someone who is, in many ways, way out of the mainstream and believes in the same kind of divisive politics?
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And Reid’s homophobia was not that out of the mainstream over a decade ago.
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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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