laundry list
nounDefinition of laundry list
: a usually long list of items
the laundry list of new consumer-protection bills— N. C. Miller
Examples of laundry list in a Sentence
She described a laundry list of goals for the city's schools.
He recited a laundry list of problems.
Recent Examples on the Web
Feleipe eventually earned a laundry list of nicknames. — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, "The Franks Connection: How a Brothers' Bond Aided the Breakthrough Florida's QB Needed," 20 Aug. 2019 But Mr Biden’s speech was rambling and unfocused, more a laundry list of mainstream Democratic positions than a coherent narrative. — J.f. | Des Moines, The Economist, "Nearly two dozen presidential candidates descend on Iowa," 9 Aug. 2019 The speech offered not only a laundry list of possible issues that antitrust regulators could examine but also arguments about the extent of regulators' powers to oversee those areas. — Brian Fung, CNN, "States threaten their own antitrust moves against tech firms," 12 June 2019 The brand has been inactive since January 2018, when recreational cannabis became legal in California, bringing with it a laundry list of new regulations and licensing requirements. — Nick Ibarra, The Mercury News, "Melissa Etheridge’s cannabis company gets OK from Santa Cruz County," 27 July 2019 Zaidi tried a laundry list of candidates before settling on Alex Dickerson in left and Mike Yastrzemski in right, flanking Kevin Pillar. — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, "Giants’ Madison Bumgarner trade decision: The makings of a historic choice," 19 July 2019 Among a laundry list of other queries, researchers asked tribal elders if their ancestors had practiced tattooing. — Krista Langlois, National Geographic, "2,000-year-old tattoo needle identified by archaeologists," 28 Feb. 2019 Correction posted July 14, 2011 The original version did not specify who offered a laundry list of 23 recommendations for making nuclear power a safer means of generating electricity. — The Christian Science Monitor, "Corrections," 4 Mar. 2019 Platform technologies go beyond performance Intel has also built in support for a laundry list of platform technologies. — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, "Intel's 9th-gen mobile Core chips aim for the high end, rocking 8 cores at up to 5GHz speeds," 23 Apr. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'laundry list.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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