The phrase
"to hit the mainstream" means that something becomes widely accepted or popular among the general public or a large audience.
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Even though, 50 plus dating sites has been on the internet for quite some time nonetheless its popularity has really started
hitting the mainstream in the past few years.
The past year looks like the turning point when alternatives to fossil fuels — everything from solar energy, wind turbines, ethanol, and the hybrid car —
finally hit the mainstream.
The advance boosts the chance that this material, which is a lot cheaper than its silicon counterparts, will
hit the mainstream market.
Even as online credit
recovery hits the mainstream, for the most part it has remained free of any scrutiny beyond what individual school leaders and the consumer marketplace provide.
We saw some large price moves, and these were significant enough for their increasingly negative levels to
hit the mainstream financial press here, here and here.
Especially with tablets in line to
potentially hit the mainstream next year, this is a product that fills a clear and present need, and fills it right now.
Affordable hybrid cars have
hit the mainstream in a big way, with the usual suspects now complemented by a wide range of models.
The Conservatives, in particular, are very good at feeding their bloggers leaks and using this as a way to allow stuff to build up steam
before hitting the mainstream press.
Parodying the news really
hit the mainstream with Saturday Night Live's «Weekend Update,» though I suppose its antecedents could be found in The Harvard Lampoon, and certainly further back again.
I first became acquainted with Celeste Ng when her debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, was a book blogger favorite but had
n't hit the mainstream yet.
Too many real estate professionals think it takes some new, jazzy technology that hasn't
hit the mainstream yet or a completely overhauled marketing plan.
«The overarching theme is that genome - based diagnosis is
now hitting mainstream medicine,» says Han Brunner, a medical geneticist at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands, who leads one of the projects.
However, they didn't really
hit mainstream until Demon's Souls and the successor trilogy of Dark Souls.
Sure, the mega-releases
still hit mainstream platforms some way before Apple's (if ever), but there is a growing and substantial crop of computing capers that you can beam to your Mac through the App Store and Steam - which can more than hold a candle to PC alternatives.
By Dave DeWitt Recipes: Caldo Tlalpeño (Tlalpan Soup) Julio's Salpicón Tournedos Chipotle Albondigas en Salsa Chipotle (Chipotle Meat Balls) I realized that chipotles had
hit the mainstream during lunch at the Quarters in Albuquerque.
The concept really
hit the mainstream at this year's Oscars when Naomie Harris hit the red carpet in a fresh Raf Simons» Calvin Klein by Appointment look complete with yellow sandals boasting alternating embellishments from the Fall 2017 collection.
When virtual reality finally
hit the mainstream last year, one of the most striking (and unexpected) attributes it brought was the ability to ratchet up horror games to new heights of scariness.
The previous Metro games — Metro 2033 and Last Light — were cult favourites that never
quite hit the mainstream, but after a big spotlight in the Microsoft presser, Metro Exodus might be the game that breaks through.
The fact of the matter is that by the time a cryptocurrency
hits a mainstream app like Coinbase, the price will have already skyrocketed thousands of times over and most of the savvy investors have already reduced their positions to find other opportunities.
Climate
change hit the mainstream in the US after NASA scientist James Hansen told Congress in 1988 that the world was warmer and mankind was to blame.
It's looking like 2016 will be the year virtual
reality hits the mainstream now that Oculus Rift is on the brink of shipping and Google Cardboard is into the millions of units sold.
Almost a decade ago — before Twitter even existed, before
Facebook hit the mainstream, before Snapchat and Instagram and Vine — CNN launched an ambitious venture called iReport.
Meanwhile, Whole Foods says Middle Eastern cuisine will
truly hit the mainstream in 2018, predicting we'll see more spices like harissa, cardamom, and za'atar, as well as dishes like shakshuka.
While Japan's elite were less concerned about the
brand hitting the mainstream, however, China's elite have a different attitude toward luxury.
The question is how long did people really think they could get away with being anonymous for & Is this why Bitcoin and other currencies that are Anonymous have not
hit the mainstream after all these years?
When the atrocities in Darfur made their way into the media, it was one of the first times such news
hit the mainstream circuit — and it has only been on the rise.
When these
recipes hit the mainstream, they often go viral through websites where chemists and entrepreneurs of all stripes trade recipes.