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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
Call it the fix for runaway production — that is, the catchall term for movie and TV projects intended for U.S. release that are filmed outside the country — that nobody in Hollywood wants.
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Chris Lee, Vulture, 5 May 2025
The ensemble isn’t quite the catchall for the sociopolitical backdrop of contemporary Western Europe, post the migrant and refugee crises of the 2010s.
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2025
The enthusiasm has spawned an industry that turns offal—a catchall term for an animal’s nonmuscular parts—into pill or powdered form.
—Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
Like most things on the internet, however, the term has lost most of its meaning and seems to be nothing but a catchall phrase for an artist people just don’t like.
—Carly Lewis-Oduntan, refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2025
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Chris Lee, Vulture, 5 May 2025
The ensemble isn’t quite the catchall for the sociopolitical backdrop of contemporary Western Europe, post the migrant and refugee crises of the 2010s.
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2025
The enthusiasm has spawned an industry that turns offal—a catchall term for an animal’s nonmuscular parts—into pill or powdered form.
—Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
Like most things on the internet, however, the term has lost most of its meaning and seems to be nothing but a catchall phrase for an artist people just don’t like.
—Carly Lewis-Oduntan, refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for catchall
Noun
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Wayfair offers several over-the-toilet storage cabinets that can help clear the clutter without adding a bulky piece of furniture to what may already be a tight space.—
Jacqueline Tempera,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 July 2025
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Nothing's take on Android makes changes to almost every UI element, which is usually a recipe for Samsung levels of clutter.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 July 2025
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The exhibit features over 60 experimental works on paper, collage and mixed media from the 1940s to early 2000s, as well as pieces inspired by the Caribbean and Hamptons landscapes that informed the abstract expressionist painter’s brilliant brushwork.—
Karu F. Daniels,
New York Daily News,
26 June 2025
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Other images in the issue include a white shell-like tray with gold interiors that holds an array of pearls with a bottle of Chanel No. 5 and a colored seashell, and a collage of lion prints, which is a subtle hint to the founder’s zodiac sign.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Footwear News,
23 June 2025
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In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.—
Lizzie Wade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
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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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These are older, synthetic compounds that are no longer widely used in clinical practice.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
18 July 2025
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In 2005, the company's Power Stick product also had a $50,000 settlement with the California Air Resources Board based on accusations that products contained volatile organic compounds beyond the state limit.—
Suzanne Blake
Jason Lemon,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 July 2025
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Dishes like the black-eyed pea fritter salad and North African shakshuka are inspired by students’ cultural identities.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
13 July 2025
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From a classic tomato sandwich to chicken salad and more, these are the best no-cook dishes to make during the summer, according to our readers.—
Jenna Sims,
Southern Living,
12 July 2025
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After all the fussing and fidgeting exerted in trying to nail just the right mix of comic book action, comedy and pathos, the movie emerges as a tone-deaf mishmash of underdeveloped characters, half-baked humor and unhatched plotting drenched in CGI overkill.—
Michael Rechtshaffen,
HollywoodReporter,
12 July 2025
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In Ideals of the East, Okakura argues that Asian civilization is founded on a shared tradition of spirituality and that Japanese art uniquely reflects this tradition because of Japan’s ability to hybridize different cultures without melting them down into an undifferentiated mishmash.—
Waiyee Loh,
JSTOR Daily,
2 July 2025
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“Catchall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catchall. Accessed 1 Aug. 2025.
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