catchall

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What was unusual in April was a record 668,000 increase in job openings in “professional and business services,” a catchall category of white-collar jobs in fields from technology to finance to law.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 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

Globalization has become a catchall explanation for a host of Americans’ troubles, from factory closures to political polarization.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 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