catchall

Example Sentences

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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

So far, the watchword of the invisible primary this time around seems to be “affordability,” a catchall term for Americans’ sense that life—everything from housing and childcare to groceries and gas—has gotten too expensive.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

“I don’t think there’s a catchall solution,” says Osmo’s Wiltschko.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 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