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mainstream

1 noun
     
main‧stream1

the mainstream

the most usual ideas or methods, or the people who have these ideas or methods
the mainstream of
Environmental ideas have been absorbed into the mainstream of European politics.
Genet started as a rebel, but soon became part of the literary mainstream.
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