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"sense": "that which is common",
"word": "común y corriente"
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"word": "mainstream consciousness"
},
{
"word": "mainstreamer"
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"word": "mainstreaming"
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"word": "mainstreamism"
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{
"word": "mainstreamist"
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"ref": "2011, Jeff Change, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, page 420:",
"text": "Just as the gang peace movement desired to mainstream hardcore bangers into civic society, The Chronic wanted to drive hardcore rap into the popstream.",
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"ref": "2013, Catherine L. Albanese, America: Religions and Religion, 5th edition, Boston: Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 262:",
"text": "In a nonchurch context, we can look more explicitly at formerly New Age practices to see if and how they have mainstreamed.",
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"ref": "1985 April 14, Barbara Gerbasi, “Mainstreaming My Son”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "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.",
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