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Opponents of CRT now invoke it as a catchall term for any discussion of systemic racism.

From Time

Exploiting that uncertainty, there has been an effort on the right to use the phrase as something of a catchall for nearly any discussion of or focus on race that might trigger frustration.

They took “carel” and spat out the word “curry” as a catchall for the food their local cooks would make for them.

From Ozy

Tracking assignments in a written planner allows students to keep all their assignments in one streamlined place and acts as a catchall, particularly when they have teachers who communicate in different ways.

Defensive runs saved, a catchall FanGraphs metric that measures players in relation to the average, ranks Schwarber as baseball’s second-worst left fielder since 2017.

Kocurek said he was told he had been terminated “for cause,” a catchall term that allows dismissal for just about any reason.

An accusation of witchcraft is vague enough to serve as a kind of catchall for discontent.

This department is a catchall for a lot of items, and it hides a lot of leaks and wastes in business.

The IMF's propensity to provide a "catchall" one-measure-fits-all panacea is nothing short of shortsighted and disastrous.

Most of you in this Chamber didn't know what was in this catchall bill and report.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to catchall, such as: broad, comprehensive, across-the-board, all-around, all the options, and all together.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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