laundry list

noun

: 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 The bill’s passage comes after the Senate’s hard-right Missouri Freedom Caucus spent 41 hours blocking the renewal until a laundry list of their demands were met, including Parson’s signature on a bill barring Medicaid funds from going to Planned Parenthood. —

Anna Sago, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2024 The move falls in line with the recommendation by Alameda County Registrar of Voters Tim Dupuis, who offered a laundry list of reasons for pushing the question out six months. —

Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024 According to the TikToker, the idea for the song stemmed from making fun of girls who complained about being single but then had a laundry list of expectations for potential partners. —

Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 12 May 2024 And their friends relied on a laundry list of apps, from budgeting apps to investment roboadvisors to their regular bank. —

Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 9 May 2024 Though Drake can proudly hoist his laundry list of accolades, spanning from his 13 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 to his all-time record number of Hot 100 entries, there’s no denying that this loss against hip-hop’s cerebral assassin will certainly muddy his standing in the rap world. —

Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 7 May 2024 Members of the hard-right Missouri Freedom Caucus have for more than 34 hours held the Senate floor hostage, halting all action until a laundry list of their demands are met. —

Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2024 But city planners have drafted long laundry lists of corrections needed before any of those plans can move forward. —

Jeff Collins, Orange County Register, 23 Apr. 2024 But the renewal has been stalled for months as a group of hard-right Republicans have pushed a laundry list of demands, including a plan to attach language to the bill that would block Planned Parenthood from receiving reimbursements from the Medicaid program. —

Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2024

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