mainstream

mainstream
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noun
ADJECTIVE
cultural, political, etc.
VERB + MAINSTREAM
enter, hit, join, reach
cut sb/sth off from, exclude sb/sth from

These teachers have been cut off from the mainstream of educational activity.

PREPOSITION
in the mainstream, within the mainstream

He was in the mainstream of British contemporary music.

into the mainstream

This technology was designed for specialists but is now starting to move into the mainstream.

out of the mainstream, outside the mainstream

He drifted out of the mainstream of society.

PHRASES
part of the mainstream

This style of drama is not part of the cultural mainstream.

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adj.
Mainstream is used with these nouns: ↑acceptance, ↑appeal, ↑audience, ↑cinema, ↑culture, ↑curriculum, ↑economics, ↑economist, ↑establishment, ↑feminism, ↑fiction, ↑film, ↑institution, ↑journalism, ↑journalist, ↑magazine, ↑media, ↑movie, ↑music, ↑Muslim, ↑newspaper, ↑politics, ↑pop, ↑press, ↑publication, ↑publisher, ↑religion, ↑rock, ↑school, ↑schooling, ↑society, ↑sociology, ↑sport

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