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An example use of catcher in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… a copy of The Catcher in the Rye in his …”
Catcher is a position in baseball.
the word catcher occurs in english on average 0.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that catcher can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) leisure and entertainment;
3) people, society, and culture;