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mainstream English

Meaning mainstream meaning

What does mainstream mean?
Definitions in simple English

mainstream Adjective

— Something that is mainstream is used or accepted by a lot of people. The news story wasn't covered by the mainstream media. The show quickly gained a mainstream audience.

mainstream Noun

— The mainstream is something that is common or accepted by a lot of people.

mainstream

— noun the prevailing current of thought his thinking was in the American mainstream

Synonyms mainstream synonyms

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mainstream English » English

mainline suitable orthodox norm majority main current main general public

Conjugation mainstream conjugation

How do you conjugate mainstream?

mainstream · verb

Examples mainstream examples

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Simple sentences

I used to like him, but now he's too mainstream.

Movie subtitles

I'm sure you know that examples of knitting, much like your afghan there, date back to the mainstream of the Egyptian civilisation.
Tell me, do you know what lies at the bottom of the mainstream?
A bit mainstream, but nice.
And I'd like to tell you the mayor's plan is to bring this department into the mainstream of twentieth-century thought.
Captain Brubaker has been out of the mainstream too long.
Lukas and Vincent were not in the mainstream of gay life.
They put that shit in here with the mainstream population.
Meanwhile, I gotta go back. into the mainstream population. and I know the minute I hit the yard, lam a dead man.
Rastas have been outcasts in Jamaica since colonial times, viewed as a threat by mainstream society.
It's not as if it was in the mainstream.
And don't become a mainstream commercial theatre.
Finding a way to get these ideas of yours into the political mainstream.
Agent Mulder has developed a consuming devotion to an unassigned project outside the Bureau mainstream.
Hell, I know Captain Brubaker is an expert at penology. but I think he's been out of the mainstream too long.
They put that shit in with the mainstream population.
Meanwhile, I gotta go back into the mainstream population.
It would be beneficial if you would re-enter the sociological mainstream by dating members of the opposite sex.
I just channelled my rebellion into the mainstream.
I mingled with Hale while he was peeling grapes with the Caribbean mainstream.
Because he chooses to live his life outside the mainstream of society.
Agent Mulder has developed a consuming devotion. to an unassigned project outside the Bureau mainstream.
You bought the mainstream, didn't you, pioneer?
You'll have to excuse my ignorance. I've been out of the mainstream a bit.
You're not that mainstream.
Broadway. The mainstream, where else?
I have a hunch it's tapping the primal mainstream.
The primal mainstream?
The big mainstream quiz games, like, you know, 8:00 o'clock on some evening, anyone watches anything.
That's what it's called, and it's got a mainstream presenter, who just comes out.
Mainstream periodicals and fashion magazines.
Oh, he's so stupid and mainstream.
And I'm looking for a mainstream buyer.
I know about dance music, this stuffs too mainstream for me.
And Paula isn't mainstream I suppose?
So you've given her some club cred, but she's still mainstream!

News and current affairs

Frequently enough, it is citizens digging at the margins of the discourse - pursuing such theories - who report on news that the mainstream media ignores.
Citizens should be able more easily to leak information, pitch stories, and send leads to mainstream investigative reporters.
Adopting this approach does not mean abandoning mainstream economics--far from it.
Critics of neoliberalism should not oppose mainstream economics--only its misuse.
To reverse America's decline, Obama needs bipartisan support for his (quite mainstream) policies, but so far the US Congress has shown no stomach for a principled approach to its legislative duties.
As a result, mainstream media are being marginalized, and the previously marginalized media are becoming mainstream.
But the break-up, a decade later, of Standard Oil - perhaps the most powerful company in the history of the world to that date - was seen by mainstream opinion as completely reasonable.
In France the government is composed of mainstream center-right politicians. Yet, President Chirac owes his victory to the success of the far right National Front.
One fundamental difference between France and Britain is that most of the mainstream political elite in France has long been broadly pro-European.
This web of contracts - often taken for granted in mainstream economics, to the extent that it becomes almost invisible - embodies the formal and informal rules embedded in the market system that shape and constrain individual and social behavior.
His rhetoric of class war suggests a complete break with mainstream social democracy.
Like Corbyn, he has the air of authenticity - a politician who says what he thinks, unlike the scripted professionals of mainstream Washington.
The first distinct accomplishment of the Clinton Administration was to adopt some key mainstream choices of economic policymaking.
The mainstream media's tendency to avoid checking out or reporting what is actually newsworthy in Internet conspiracy theories partly reflects class bias.
Anti-immigrant rhetoric from the political extremes has fed into mainstream political discourse.
Both Bachmann and Palin are regularly derided in the mainstream press.
But, promisingly - and surprisingly, given the somewhat toxic state of US politics - it attracted broad support and intelligent commentary from many mainstream pundits.
No mainstream European leader, including Hollande, even mentions this new division.
In France the government is composed of mainstream center-right politicians.
More recently, Clinton defended the economic mainstream against attack by conservative Republicans, who pushed for deep tax cuts that would undermine the fiscal surpluses of recent years.
But they are not only turning away from mainstream political parties and following populists who promise to clean out the corrupt elites from the centers of power; they also share a taste for political entertainers, or clowns if you like.

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