catchall

How to use catchall in a sentence

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

  'Critical Race Theory Is Simply the Latest Bogeyman.' Inside the Fight Over What Kids Learn About America's History | Olivia B. Waxman | June 24, 2021 | 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.

  The Scholar Strategy: How ‘critical race theory’ alarms could convert racial anxiety into political energy | Philip Bump | June 15, 2021 | Washington Post

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

  The Violent Rise of Curry | Shaan Merchant | March 26, 2021 | 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.

  How to help kids adapt to the chaos that is hybrid learning | Ana Homayoun | March 25, 2021 | Washington Post

• 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.

  Signing Kyle Schwarber puts a spotlight on Victor Robles’s defense | Jesse Dougherty | January 11, 2021 | Washington Post