Mainstream

Definitions

1. The principal current in a flow, such as a river or flow of air
2. That which is common; the norm.
   usually

Equivalents

Examples

“ideas outside of the mainstream”

“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.””

“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.”

“"Railways seldom slavishly followed styles to be seen in the mainstream of contemporary architecture," HE [Historic England] explains.”

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