How to Use mainstream in a Sentence

mainstream

1 of 3 noun
Definition of mainstreamnext
  • That has been well outside the judicial mainstream since around the time of the New Deal.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 May 2023
  • So mainstream users can still use it for a little longer.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Subaru was the top mainstream brand, and No. 2 overall.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The movement to make pay transparency mainstream in the U.S. has picked up steam over the past few years.
    — Natasha Solo-Lyons, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2023
  • To a certain extent, there wasn’t any mainstream artist still in their prime who was doing that.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 May 2023
  • But for the industry mainstream, Toronto will be the real stress test.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Far from it: For me, part of the real joy of a life of dedicated movie-watching is the mix of old and new, art house and mainstream, all of it.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Livestreamed concerts by mainstream artists are often more like note-by-note recitals.
    — Jenn Pelly, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • They got signed to a metal label, Roadrunner Records, as the sole mainstream rock guys.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The high costs of trying to turn the metaverse into a mainstream business have spooked Wall Street, causing Meta’s stock to plunge last year.
    — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 16 June 2023
  • Home-schooling, on the other hand, has changed drastically over the past few decades, evolving from a fringe choice to a mainstream one.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2024
  • But mainstream awareness of kala namak was still slow-going over the past decade, said Vora of Rainbow Plant Life.
    — Mayukh Sen, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • As the years have progressed, it’s been fun to see all of this become a little bit more mainstream and weirdly accepted as fact.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Barnes’s 1966 New York show might have marked his triumphant emergence into the artistic mainstream.
    — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In 1993, the album The Chronic (originally released the year before) broke through to hip-hop’s mainstream.
    — Armond White, National Review, 15 Nov. 2023
  • This was the first mainstream show centered entirely around climate.
    — Melissa Jun Rowley, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
  • As part of that push for mainstream appeal, Linden said the company is not advertising the fact that NFTs or the blockchain are being used.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Drag Race is such a viral and mainstream platform that absolutely drag kings deserve to be on.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Both were popular Christian singers who also crossed over to mainstream pop and country tunes.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The Army Corps was attacked relentlessly in Congress and mainstream newspapers—but not for the treatment of Black refugees.
    — Geoff Dembicki, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The south has a big and growing Latine population that is rarely seen or discussed in mainstream media.
    — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • But the opportunity to go mainstream was not afforded to all Latin artists.
    — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Bob Hope, then one of the country’s biggest and most mainstream entertainers, saw Bennett there and invited him to open one of his shows.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
  • There was a sci-fi genre that mainstream writers were very serious about, and that was romance comics (soonjeong manhwa).
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 11 July 2023
  • Because, when an artist gets this level of mainstream, the accepted rules of the fandom aren’t just inaccessible to a group of new fans.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2023
  • More mainstream drinks like lattes and drip coffee are also available.
    — Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
  • This is yet more evidence that the worlds of blockchain and mainstream finance are drawing closer together.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Aimee tries something new by taking an Art A-Level and Adam grapples with whether mainstream education is for him.
    — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
  • It’s rapidly become mainstream with ChatGPT, which can help write you a cocktail recipe and even guide you through woodworking projects.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The life of Istvan, with his campaign to make transhumanism mainstream, brings these themes of libertarianism, posthumanism and politics, longevity and life extension, together in one life story.
    — Tracey Follows, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
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mainstream

2 of 3 adjective
  • Some, like the Dave Matthews Band and Phish, have achieved mainstream success.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But the fact that the footage has now been seen across the globe has risked damaging her mainstream image.
    — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Even among mainstream auto brands, like Ford, EVs tend to cost more.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Payne said that in the 1990s, many Christian groups wanted to get mainstream success.
    — Bob Smietana, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • How mainstream the court will become for the NBA is still to be determined.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Because solos have slipped out of mainstream music, along with bands, for the most part.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The site wasn’t too keen on the idea, with cofounder Evan Williams going so far as to tell Messina that hashtags were too niche to go mainstream.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2023
  • There’s this rumor that fat and thick people don't work out, and obesity shouldn't be mainstream.
    — Rita Omokha, ELLE, 14 July 2023
  • From where is Microsoft pulling the idea that these very mainstream, midrange shoppers don’t need backlit keys?
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2023
  • None of these claims sat well with more mainstream conservatives.
    — TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Google may be the company that’s able to make foldable phones more mainstream, CNET has suggested.
    — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 4 May 2023
  • But speaking of Team Evolve, will the next album project be a pivot back to more obviously mainstream fare, or…?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Apr. 2024
  • What, exactly, is mainstream at a time when so many people get their news through a mélange of social-media posts?
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The Pogues achieved mainstream success with their unique blend of punk rock and traditional Irish folk songs and instruments.
    — Conor Murray, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • In the age where tin-foil hat conspiracies go mainstream, cracking the door with any breadcrumb to doubt the integrity of games was rigged or fixed builds a house of cards.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 13 July 2023
  • And that pejorative is so mainstream, that even Michelle Obama said it.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The company pledged not to sell ads on content that rejects mainstream climate science more than a year ago.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 2 May 2023
  • That one of the most mainstream celebrities should align themselves with the aesthetics of a nihilistic subculture is a bit fun.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 7 Nov. 2023
  • There have been many mainstream movies of late taking on the anxiety and impact of being an immigrant in the United States.
    — The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2024
  • But mainstream political leaders in the U.S. lack the power or the will to explore even common-sense measures.
    — Matthew King, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Over the past 30 years, video games have grown from a toy, to a niche hobby, and finally into mainstream entertainment.
    — Steven T. Wright, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
  • The ceremony will cap one of the buzziest years for mainstream movies in recent memory.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Yet more mainstream groups have also offered this advice.
    — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Consistently, he’s put the culture in mainstream eyes with grace and elegance.
    — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Although Nickelback has achieved mainstream success, the band has been a polarizing force in the music world.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 8 June 2023
  • The types of care vary by the age and goals of the recipient and are considered the standard of care by many mainstream medical associations.
    — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Year by year, songs by Reggaeton artists slowly started creeping up the Billboard charts and soon enough became mainstream pop.
    — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Many predict that technology could take a decade to become mainstream.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The motivations that led to end-to-end encryption going mainstream lie far out on the political fringe.
    — Kai Ye, WIRED, 23 July 2023
  • Wishing Netanyahu gone is the most mainstream position possible — and one sincere friends of Israel should never be afraid to express.
    — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
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mainstream

3 of 3 verb
  • The poor should be mainstreamed into the private health-insurance system.
  • Ideas that were once controversial have now become mainstreamed.
  • In the last two years, Margiela’s split-toe Tabi went from fringe to mainstream.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 June 2023
  • The goal is to help mainstream the Irish language through the reach of a medium like film.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Only now, some on the right are trying to mainstream the idea.
    — Richard Galant, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
  • What was then fringe is now tacking sharply to mainstream.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
  • These are just a few out-there sounding trends that are getting mainstreamed at spas around the world.
    — Victoria Veilleux, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Jan. 2018
  • There were kids like Jim, who — like me — had been mainstreamed, and were the only disabled person in his posse.
    — Maysoon Zayid, refinery29.com, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Many of the tracks on the album explore an edge to pop-punk that’s not typical to mainstream Top 40 radio.
    — cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Perhaps the most profound shift is in the way that mainstream America talks about gender.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2019
  • This is how the smart home market transitions from early adopters to mainstream consumers over the next two or three years.
    — Bill Curtis, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Now, Ezra has announced a fresh $21 million in venture funding to take full-body scans mainstream.
    — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Compare that to TikTok’s 1 billion-plus monthly active users and it’s clear that the leap to mainstream adoption still needs to be made.
    — Iris Ten Teije, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • So begins the war of the voices, to see which platform—if any—can rise to mainstream status and shape the future of social networking.
    — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 16 Dec. 2020
  • While other artists brought rap to mainstream America prior his arrival, no one pushed the genre to the heights like Eminem did.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2022
  • What can mainstream networks learn from PJ in reaching young people?
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 20 July 2022
  • The Christian right owes its current influence in part to Bush, who mainstreamed it in ways that his father and Ronald Reagan did not.
    — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2018
  • That connection turned out to be too tenuous to sell to mainstream news outlets.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Buoyed by the pandemic, 2020 was undoubtedly the year that telehealth turned the corner to mainstream.
    — Mario Aguilar, STAT, 14 Jan. 2021
  • There’s been a major impact in terms of what Tesla has done to mainstream the idea of electric vehicles.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
  • By Wednesday, the hashtag had quickly jumped from the hard-right of the internet to mainstream Republicans.
    — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • If the Force is with Funko — and the winds cooperate — the company and its line of vinyl figurines could make the leap from the cool nerds’ lunch table to mainstream pop consciousness.
    — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
  • These plaudits, of course, don’t add up to mainstream commercial success.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Throughout the campaign and since the election, Márquez has used her growing prominence to mainstream her Afro-Colombian heritage.
    — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 16 July 2022
  • In the years since, replacement theory has moved from the online fringe to mainstream right-wing politics.
    — Chris Megerian, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2022
  • Teams was the first to mainstream the use of virtual rooms, which Microsoft calls Together Mode.
    — Emily Dreyfuss, SFChronicle.com, 9 Aug. 2020
  • Since then, the singular they has been further mainstreamed, though the path to acceptance has not been entirely smooth.
    — Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Ukraine has an ambitious plan to both mainstream the nation’s thriving trade in crypto and to rebrand the entire country.
    — New York Times, 18 Nov. 2021
  • But in 2001, his influence helped mainstream the rush to incriminate America for the crimes and sins of others.
    — A. J. Caschetta, National Review, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The pair started dating sometime around 2017 before Lil Durk rose to mainstream fame with notable collaborations.
    — Kaitlin Stevens, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024

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