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catch-all

noun

    1. something designed to cover a variety of situations or possibilities

    2. ( as modifier )

      a catch-all clause

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ violence were shunted into a catch-all group.

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And for me, and many others, will it help clear our brain fog, a catch-all term that describes an inability to think clearly, string a sentence together, and remember the simplest of things?

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Junk journaling, yet another marker of younger generations’ continued reversion to physical media, is a catch-all term for a craft practice that incorporates scrapbooking, collaging and journaling.

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Sniffspot is a great resource to have in my back pocket, but it’s not a catch-all solution.

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Despite its subject matter and association with the “K-wave,” that catch-all term for any and all Korean cultural export, “K-pop Demon Hunters,” at least in the narrowest sense, doesn’t quite fit the bill.

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