catchall

Example Sentences

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The term is less taxonomically specific and more of a catchall, used to refer to any photosynthesizing organism that isn’t a plant.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2026

What was unusual in April was a record 668,000 increase in job openings in “professional and business services,” a catchall category of white-collar jobs in fields from technology to finance to law.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Weight-loss drugs, a catchall term for Lilly’s family of GLP-1 medications, have continued to dominate the conversation.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

The sources familiar with the Perez photo case said the officer was accused of “conduct unbecoming,” widely considered a catchall category for inappropriate behavior under department regulations.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

They were also encouraged not to settle for old-fashioned and “bourgeois” gender roles—“bourgeois” being a catchall term for the upper middle classes of Imperial Russia who’d aspired to wealth and luxury.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein