Thesaurus results for CATCHWORD

catchword

noun

Definition of catchword

as in slogan

a word or phrase that is used repeatedly and conveniently to represent or characterize a person, group, idea, or point of view a catchword that appeared in every campaign ad

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Recent Examples of catchword The catchwords seem too simple, too reductive, to speak to the nature of his expansive, unsummarizable theorizing. — Literary Hub, 23 May 2025 And there will be more games like that this season, until consistency and cohesion become reality and not just catchwords. — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023 Reliability has become the catchword for Texas’ electric industry since February 2021. — Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2022 Said to be a mashup of the words snowy and neckdown, the catchphrase or catchword was reportedly popularized via Twitter in 2014. — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022 Narcissism has become a catchword to describe pretty much anyone who's vain, self-obsessed, and craves the spotlight. — Health.com, 20 Apr. 2021 Fueled by international competition and the reality of robust economic expansion in many nations, growth had quickly become the catchword of the day in economics departments and government bureaucracies. — Christopher F. Jones, The New Republic, 1 Oct. 2019 Now, in the era of Deng Xiaoping with reform the catchword, politics seemed muddled and mixed up in a new way, and Li was acquiring a name as a conservative. — The Economist, 25 July 2019

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Noun

Kessler argued that the slogan reflected her advocacy against transgender athletes competing in girls’ sports and was not specific to her Assembly campaign.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Instead of paying an actor or voiceover artist to deliver the ad’s slogan, Royal Mail commissioned the ad’s producers to cut the human from the loop.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of slogan

Noun

And now there are secrets that are imparted during the rituals, like the secret of what the meaning of the motto is, and that sort of thing.

— Richard Hall, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
That might be the unofficial motto of the USC Trojans football program since the end of the Pete Carroll era, though with some slight tweaks here and there.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2026