catchword

Example Sentences

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“Finlandization,” in fact, became a catchword during the Cold War for a small nation carefully moderating its security policies so as not to anger a larger, hostile neighbor.

From Washington Times • Apr. 13, 2022

A shibboleth is a catchword or slogan identifying a particular group.

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2019

I think a lot of people are jumping onto it as a catchword and making people think they have a “gee-wiz” material, like this glasses company I saw saying they have graphene in the glasses.

From The Verge • Jan. 24, 2018

“Watergate” was a catchword for a multitude of government and political sins.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2014

The pessimist-fatalist Mr. Toobad, with his "innumerable proofs of the temporary supremacy of the devil," and his catchword "the devil has come among us, having great wrath," appears just enough, and not too much.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George