mainstreamed
- 1Simple past and past participle of mainstream.
The district mainstreamed special-education students throughout the 1990s.
Several once-niche ideas were mainstreamed by viral social media posts.
Note
One spelling does double duty: it stands alone as a simple past (the idea mainstreamed quickly) and follows have or be in perfect and passive constructions. The passive belongs only to the transitive uses. Something is mainstreamed when others popularize it, or, in American schooling, a disabled student is mainstreamed into regular classes. The intransitive use, meaning simply to become mainstream, takes no passive.
mainstreamed is a form of mainstream
mainstream, verb: To make an idea, product, or practice widely popular and accepted. Full entry
- Forms
- mainstreammainstreams he/she/itmainstreaming -ing formmainstreamed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- mainstream → mainstreamed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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