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such-and-such (plural such-and-suches)

1. A placeholder or generic thing.

   It's a poor system, because if you want to do such-and-such, you must first find that function in a long and disorderly list.

such-and-such

1. indefinite; some or other, not stated

   I am troubled by the rush of young researchers attempting to prove that females are not inferior to males in such-and-such an ability or such-and-such a trait, especially when it is by no means clear what difference it makes.

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