laundry list
noun
: a usually long list of items
… the laundry list of new consumer-protection bills …—
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N. C. MillerExamples of laundry list in a Sentence
She described a laundry list of goals for the city's schools.
He recited a laundry list of problems.
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Certification typically comes with a laundry list of requirements, including buffer zones, which are intended to shield their natural operations from pesticides that are often used with conventional agriculture.
—Thomas Heaton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Isolated by its beautiful, rugged mountains, West Virginia sits entirely within Appalachia and has long been listed at the bottom of a laundry list of failings, including poor health and a lack of education.
—ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026
In a somewhat technical blog post accompanying the Spark announcement, Meta includes the by now routine laundry list of AI benchmarks, in which Muse Spark’s standard thinking mode ranks comparable or better than competing models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI.
—ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2026
Two restaurants and a laundry list of amenities and activities mean there will be no island fever here, though the resort offers plenty of opportunities for excursions, just in case.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2026
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Thomas Heaton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Isolated by its beautiful, rugged mountains, West Virginia sits entirely within Appalachia and has long been listed at the bottom of a laundry list of failings, including poor health and a lack of education.
—ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026
In a somewhat technical blog post accompanying the Spark announcement, Meta includes the by now routine laundry list of AI benchmarks, in which Muse Spark’s standard thinking mode ranks comparable or better than competing models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI.
—ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2026
Two restaurants and a laundry list of amenities and activities mean there will be no island fever here, though the resort offers plenty of opportunities for excursions, just in case.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for laundry list
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“Laundry list.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laundry%20list. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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