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catchall

[ kach-awl ]

noun

  1. a bag, basket, or other receptacle for odds and ends.
  2. something that covers a wide variety of items or situations:

    The list is just a catchall of things I want to see or do on vacation.



adjective

  1. covering a wide variety of items or situations:

    The anthology is a catchall collection.

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of catchall1

1830–40, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase catch all
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In some cases, they cited a catchall exemption that keeping the records private clearly outweighs the public interest, with no further explanation.

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That view treats Middle America as a catchall for sensibility, moral uprightness and a mythical strain of virtue incorrectly believed to be absent from the supposedly libertine coasts or in large cities.

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For her Narcissus catchall, she applied the loose gestures of Chinese brush painting to metal sculpture to encapsulate the object’s qi, or vital energy.

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But in the hands of the broader, and whiter, academic and journalistic left, it soon became a kind of cool catchall for progressive politics, alongside other buzzwords like “intersectionality.â€

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“Everything looks better on a tray, in a catchall or in a bucket,†he said.

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