as in clutter
something that holds or includes many different things
They used the drawer as a catchall for kitchen items.
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Recent Examples of catchall
Though many herbs are touted as superfoods with catchall health benefits, few live up to the hype.
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Audrey Noble, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2025
Executive orders are among the most prominent types of executive actions, and sometimes people use that term as a catchall for other categories of ways that presidents can exercise their control over the executive branch.
—Charlie Savage, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Health anxiety has become somewhat of a catchall phrase and exists on a broad spectrum, explains Timothy Scarella, an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard University.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025
The image of Nila’s apartment building becomes a catchall for her family, growing up in poverty, and being of Muslim background in a country where mosques are set ablaze and brown people are victims of hate crimes.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
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Audrey Noble, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2025
Executive orders are among the most prominent types of executive actions, and sometimes people use that term as a catchall for other categories of ways that presidents can exercise their control over the executive branch.
—Charlie Savage, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Health anxiety has become somewhat of a catchall phrase and exists on a broad spectrum, explains Timothy Scarella, an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard University.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025
The image of Nila’s apartment building becomes a catchall for her family, growing up in poverty, and being of Muslim background in a country where mosques are set ablaze and brown people are victims of hate crimes.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for catchall
Noun
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Here, Southern professional organizers speak to nine of these pitfalls and explain what to do instead in order to successfully contain the clutter.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
24 Apr. 2025
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Imagine a warehouse bot weaving through clutter, a retail robot answering customer queries, or a humanoid assembling intricate parts.—
Jack Kelly,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Seashells in My Mother’s Garden and The Giant Boulder Rolling Down, featuring eight large-scale paintings and three intricate collage works on paper, is on view through May 31.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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In fact, some supplements combine biotin and collage into one product.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Verywell Health,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Instead, voters themselves are jumbles of competing and sometimes contradictory interests.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
14 Feb. 2025
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Baker also leads the orchestra, which sounds grand — although the sound in the arts center’s Pugh Theater often left musicians, lead singers and chorus all at the same level, with actors speaking over all of it at the same time to create a sonic jumble.—
Matthew J. Palm,
Orlando Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Shah: In the short term, sustained tariffs could trigger drug shortages, particularly for generic and specialty compounds.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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The methane is then processed to meet purity standards and separated from other chemical compounds to become renewable natural gas.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
5 May 2025
Noun
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Think tuna salad, chicken salad, egg salad, and even pimento cheese.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
3 May 2025
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There are pastas, Black Angus meatballs, salads and crispy calamari.—
Stephanie Breijo,
Los Angeles Times,
2 May 2025
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Then a Militia Showed Up. Residents of Oakdale, Calif., have abandoned traditional media outlets for a mishmash of online sources.—
Ulysses Ortega,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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The algorithm collapses context into a post-post-ironic mishmash.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Catchall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catchall. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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