Mainstream
adjective
Accepted by or involving most people in a society.
His views are now considered mainstream.
Often appears as...
- mainstream media
- mainstream education
adjective
Belonging to a widely accepted group or system.
She's trying to charm the mainstream voters.
Often appears as...
- mainstream parties
- mainstream audience
noun
The principal or dominant course, tendency, or trend.
The mainstream of modern American culture.
Often appears as...
- part of the mainstream
- into the mainstream
adjective
Accepted by or involving most people in a society.
His views are now considered mainstream.
Often appears as...
- mainstream media
- mainstream education
adjective
Belonging to a widely accepted group or system.
She's trying to charm the mainstream voters.
Often appears as...
- mainstream parties
- mainstream audience
noun
The principal or dominant course, tendency, or trend.
The mainstream of modern American culture.
Often appears as...
- part of the mainstream
- into the mainstream
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Widespread Acceptance
The term implies that something is typical and recognized by the majority within a community or society.
Her style of clothing quickly became mainstream among teenagers.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Extreme
'Mainstream' suggests that something is not at the fringes or extreme ends of opinions or behaviors.
His political stance is mainstream, neither too conservative nor too liberal.
Pro Tip 3/3Shifts Over Time
What is considered 'mainstream' can change as society's attitudes and norms evolve.
Eco-friendly products are becoming part of the mainstream market.
Pro Tip 1/3Widespread Acceptance
The term implies that something is typical and recognized by the majority within a community or society.
Her style of clothing quickly became mainstream among teenagers.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Extreme
'Mainstream' suggests that something is not at the fringes or extreme ends of opinions or behaviors.
His political stance is mainstream, neither too conservative nor too liberal.
Pro Tip 3/3Shifts Over Time
What is considered 'mainstream' can change as society's attitudes and norms evolve.
Eco-friendly products are becoming part of the mainstream market.
Pro Tip 1/3Widespread Acceptance
The term implies that something is typical and recognized by the majority within a community or society.
Her style of clothing quickly became mainstream among teenagers.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Extreme
'Mainstream' suggests that something is not at the fringes or extreme ends of opinions or behaviors.
His political stance is mainstream, neither too conservative nor too liberal.
Pro Tip 3/3Shifts Over Time
What is considered 'mainstream' can change as society's attitudes and norms evolve.
Eco-friendly products are becoming part of the mainstream market.
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Ben Goldacre: Battling...
in mainstream children. They said, "We did a trial. All the previous ones were positive, this one will be too." That should ring alarm if you know the answer to your trial, you shouldn't be doing one. Either you've rigged it by design, or you've got enough data so there's no need to randomize people anymore. So this is what they were going to do in their
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The history of tattoos -...
After all, they lasted forever and it really hurt to get them. For the Maori, those tattoos were an accepted mainstream tradition. If you shied away from the excruciating chiseling in of your moko design, your unfinished tattoo marked your cowardice. Today, unless you go the traditional route,
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Rick Guidotti: From...
schools for the blind, not because the tools were better there for kids with visual impairment, but more importantly, because the teasing was so great, the discrimination is so great, these kids don't do well in mainstream schools. I started an albinism society in Kenya with my friend C.K.,
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A message of peace, hope...
getting your information from because if it's the mainstream I'd like to tell you that in the range that the mainstream was suffering from a serious strain of you know I would say an easier as far as the truth is concerned it would it will concentrate on something and completely
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The best stats you've...
staff you have to educate the population and sheikh zayed did that in a fairly good way and in spite of falling oil prices he brought this country up here so we got a much more mainstream appearance of the world where all countries tend to use their money better
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Skinheads Recruiting...
techniques are both powerful and far-reaching leaving behind the conventional uniform they've learned to blend into mainstream society to attract new recruits you know we had a run with the skinhead thing and it was fun but then i said well it's time you know
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Nationalism vs....
And it made me afraid, because it meant that no matter what happens in universities and laboratories, and there, there is already an intense debate about it, but in the mainstream political system and among the general public, people are just unaware
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America Ferrera: My...
our experiences won't resonate in the mainstream, our voices are too big a financial risk. Just a few years ago, my agent called to explain to me why I wasn't getting a role in a movie. He said, "They loved you
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Hans Rosling: Debunking...
So we've got a much more mainstream appearance of the world, where all countries tend to use their money better than they used it in the past.
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Blind Boy Uses...
oh hang on a few then echolocation is helping Sam become fully integrated into mainstream school clip and find out why
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Ben Goldacre: Battling...
in mainstream children. They said, "We did a trial. All the previous ones were positive, this one will be too." That should ring alarm if you know the answer to your trial, you shouldn't be doing one. Either you've rigged it by design, or you've got enough data so there's no need to randomize people anymore. So this is what they were going to do in their
Video examples
The history of tattoos -...
After all, they lasted forever and it really hurt to get them. For the Maori, those tattoos were an accepted mainstream tradition. If you shied away from the excruciating chiseling in of your moko design, your unfinished tattoo marked your cowardice. Today, unless you go the traditional route,
Video examples
Rick Guidotti: From...
schools for the blind, not because the tools were better there for kids with visual impairment, but more importantly, because the teasing was so great, the discrimination is so great, these kids don't do well in mainstream schools. I started an albinism society in Kenya with my friend C.K.,
Video examples
A message of peace, hope...
getting your information from because if it's the mainstream I'd like to tell you that in the range that the mainstream was suffering from a serious strain of you know I would say an easier as far as the truth is concerned it would it will concentrate on something and completely
Video examples
The best stats you've...
staff you have to educate the population and sheikh zayed did that in a fairly good way and in spite of falling oil prices he brought this country up here so we got a much more mainstream appearance of the world where all countries tend to use their money better
Video examples
Skinheads Recruiting...
techniques are both powerful and far-reaching leaving behind the conventional uniform they've learned to blend into mainstream society to attract new recruits you know we had a run with the skinhead thing and it was fun but then i said well it's time you know
Video examples
Nationalism vs....
And it made me afraid, because it meant that no matter what happens in universities and laboratories, and there, there is already an intense debate about it, but in the mainstream political system and among the general public, people are just unaware
Video examples
America Ferrera: My...
our experiences won't resonate in the mainstream, our voices are too big a financial risk. Just a few years ago, my agent called to explain to me why I wasn't getting a role in a movie. He said, "They loved you
Video examples
Hans Rosling: Debunking...
So we've got a much more mainstream appearance of the world, where all countries tend to use their money better than they used it in the past.
Video examples
Blind Boy Uses...
oh hang on a few then echolocation is helping Sam become fully integrated into mainstream school clip and find out why
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Ian MacKaye
American Musician
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
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Javed Akhtar
Indian Activist
Very rarely does a mainstream film push the envelope. A film that's so-called mainstream and questions certain norms, certain notions of morality, and gets away with it opens doors. It means the common man, the majority of the people, have accepted it.
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E. O. Wilson
American Scientist
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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Frank Luntz
American Politician
I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.
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Yasmine Hamdan
Lebanese Musician
I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna's producer and a record label that is extremely mainstream - it was interesting.
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Young Buck
American Musician
You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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Flea
Australian Musician
I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.
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Kirk Franklin
American Singer
It's important for a gospel artist not to try to be mainstream.
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Ian MacKaye
American Musician
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
Quote examples
Javed Akhtar
Indian Activist
Very rarely does a mainstream film push the envelope. A film that's so-called mainstream and questions certain norms, certain notions of morality, and gets away with it opens doors. It means the common man, the majority of the people, have accepted it.
Quote examples
E. O. Wilson
American Scientist
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
Quote examples
Frank Luntz
American Politician
I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.
Quote examples
Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.
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Yasmine Hamdan
Lebanese Musician
I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna's producer and a record label that is extremely mainstream - it was interesting.
Quote examples
Young Buck
American Musician
You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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Flea
Australian Musician
I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.
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Kirk Franklin
American Singer
It's important for a gospel artist not to try to be mainstream.
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