I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the mainstream/popular media (= television, newspapers etc, that most people are able to see or read )
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Few of these events were reported in the mainstream media.
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■ ADJECTIVE
political
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Within the political mainstream , the spirit of these times was consensual.
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You know e-mail has gone mainstream when Uncle Sam is developing an electronic postmark to time and date stamp e-mail.
II. adjective
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After starting out as a romance novelist, she decided to try writing mainstream fiction.
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Most disabled students are integrated into the mainstream educational system.
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The mainstream political parties are losing support to smaller, more radical organizations.
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But we know a good deal about the performance of the mainstream media.
III. verb
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If the teacher does not personally judge, label, reject, or pass upon individuals, then mainstreaming can work.
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The alert library media specialist will have recognized at once that mainstreaming is, after all, a kind of integration.