Ian MacKaye

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.

American Musician

Javed Akhtar

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.

Indian Activist

E. O. Wilson

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.

American Scientist

Frank Luntz

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.

American Politician

Noam Chomsky

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.

American Activist

Deepak Chopra

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.

American Speaker

Yasmine Hamdan

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.

Lebanese Musician

Young Buck

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.

Flea

I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.

Australian Musician

Kirk Franklin

It's important for a gospel artist not to try to be mainstream.

American Singer

The term implies that something is typical and recognized by the majority within a community or society.

Widespread Acceptance

'Mainstream' suggests that something is not at the fringes or extreme ends of opinions or behaviors.

Not Extreme

What is considered 'mainstream' can change as society's attitudes and norms evolve.

Shifts Over Time

It relates to ideas or products designed to appeal to a large, general audience.

General Appeal

'Mainstream' indicates inclusion within the prevalent norms and practices of the larger group.

Conformity Inclusion

Refers to the most common and powerful trends or attitudes within a given context.

Dominant Trends

Mainstream culture reflects the shared values and practices of the majority population.

Cultural Mainstream

When something enters the mainstream, it goes from being niche or unknown to widely recognized.

Entering the Mainstream

 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 oh hang on a few then echolocation is helping Sam become fully integrated into mainstream school clip and find out why

Mainstream

Accepted by or involving most people in a society.

Often appears as...

Belonging to a widely accepted group or system.

Often appears as...

The principal or dominant course, tendency, or trend.

Often appears as...

Widespread Acceptance

Not Extreme

Shifts Over Time

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