mainstream

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  1. noun The prevailing current of thought, influence, or activity: "You need not accept the nominee's ideology, only be able to locate it in the American mainstream” (Charles Krauthammer).
  2. adjective Representing the prevalent attitudes, values, and practices of a society or group: mainstream morality.
  3. transitive verb To integrate (a student with special needs) into regular school classes.
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  • Others complain that certain books in the mainstream are appropriating science fictional tropes. —  F ;SF; - vol 104 issue 04 - April 2003
  • The apparent weakness of Independents in being outside the mainstream is their strength: they represent an alternative way of thinking about politics.
  • First Filipina elected to a state legislature in the continental United States (1992) "For an immigrant woman to be elected to public office and to be given the opportunity to be in the mainstream has been the greatest gift that people have given to me." —  Home
  • You don't need to be a genius to intuit what their general idea is; particular cultural tensions between this subculture and the mainstream are at work, and religion might be an exacerbating as opposed to dampening influence. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • Proposals about other technologies ahead of the mainstream are also invited. —  Feedburner: O'Reilly Press Releases
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