mainstream

CEFRC1

/meɪn.stɹiːm/

noun · adjective

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His radical views place him outside the mainstream of American politics.
Outside the mainstream of orthodox Judaism, the apocalyptic books were more successful with certain movements.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meaning

Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of population, market, scientific community, etc.

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As unsubstantiated claims receive significant backing, skeptics and defenders of mainstream science enter the fray.
2011, Taner Edis, Science and Nonbelief, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 153
The mainstream media hones in on bad news stories where UK railways are concerned, yet gives scant attention to the many items of good news emerging from the network.
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Aylesbury (2009)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61
If Ms. Le Pen looks more mainstream now, it’s because the mainstream looks more like her.
2022 April 20, Rim-Sarah Alouane, “Marine Le Pen Is as Dangerous as Ever”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
George Herbert Walker Bush of Phillips Andover Academy and Yale University proclaimed in the first Presidential candidates' debate that he was “in touch with the mainstream of America.”
1988 September 30, Tom Wicker, quoting George H. W. Bush, “Ol' Man Mainstream”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Long content with being the BMW of the computer industry, suppying finely crafted machines to a relatively small number of fanatic customers, Apple now wants to become a Ford or Toyota, to move into the mainstream.
1991 July 14, Andrew Pollack, “A Quirky Loner Goes Mainstream”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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From main + stream. Cognate with Icelandic meginstraumur (“a main current, mainstream”).