mainstreamed

Verb

mainstream (third-person singular simple present mainstreams, present participle mainstreaming, simple past and past participle mainstreamed)

1. (transitive) To popularize, to normalize, to render mainstream.
   • Just as the gang peace movement desired to mainstream hardcore bangers into civic society, The Chronic wanted to drive hardcore rap into the popstream.2011, Jeff Change, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, page 420
2. (intransitive) To become mainstream.
   • In a nonchurch context, we can look more explicitly at formerly New Age practices to see if and how they have mainstreamed.2013, Catherine L. Albanese, America: Religions and Religion, 5th edition, Boston: Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 262
3. (US, transitive) To educate (a disabled student) together with non-disabled students.
   • Despite these beliefs, the decision to send my son to a regular school was not made easily. I didn't know of any child as disabled as he who had been mainstreamed.1985 April 14, Barbara Gerbasi, “Mainstreaming My Son”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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