Definition of catch-as-catch-cannext

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Recent Examples of catch-as-catch-can Here’s the writer Nick Paumgarten trying to drum up a Talk of the Town piece by wandering through the East Village and questioning random New Yorkers about what’s on their minds, a catch-as-catch-can method that, in its way, reflects the magazine’s democratic openness. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025 The old days of barnstorming teams playing catch-as-catch-can schedules was no longer an acceptable business model. Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2024 Cone collection, done by local residents who are paid by the bushel, is a catch-as-catch-can kind of business. Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for catch-as-catch-can
Adjective
  • Raman is now easily scoring off of Bass mishaps, like the mayor’s response to the Lineage warehouse fire and her random broadside against street vendors during a debate in Sherman Oaks last month.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Several Chinese research teams developed and tested the coherent routing system for bucket-brigade quantum random access memory, or QRAM, Science and Technology Daily reported on Wednesday.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The scattered pieces of the former storm will likely drift over the Caribbean and soak Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Hispaniola with a few inches of rain, some of which will reach Florida.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The right words can turn scattered details into a workable plan.
    Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • While some of the color contrasts do articulate planar shifts, such as the candy-stripe lips (red for upper, pink for lower), many of the touches are arbitrary splotches that neither bolster a shape nor set another off.
    Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The choices of what to put in each episode — and when to cut from one timeline to another — have sometimes felt arbitrary, and have often disrupted the story’s overall flow.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026

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“Catch-as-catch-can.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catch-as-catch-can. Accessed 7 Sep. 2026.

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