of the sort
idiom
: like the person or thing mentioned
"You said you didn't like him." "I said nothing of the sort."
I would like to go to a movie or a concert, or something of the sort.
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The best way to heal the wound is through poetry and music, of the sort that doesn’t offer propositions but casts spells and enacts rituals.
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
On a recent morning, the OnPoint NYC overdose prevention center on 126th St. in Harlem did not look like the dirty drug den or a squalid shooting gallery of the sort that opponents try to paint it as.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024
The industrializing world’s pursuit of rapid economic growth is contingent on the expansion of on-demand power generation of the sort that only fossil fuels and nuclear energy can provide.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 13 June 2024
Conservatives such as Richard Vedder, emeritus professor of economics at Ohio University and a senior fellow at the Independent Institute, a libertarian think tank, point to DEI programs as an example of the sort of non-instructional spending that has increased in recent years.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2024
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
On a recent morning, the OnPoint NYC overdose prevention center on 126th St. in Harlem did not look like the dirty drug den or a squalid shooting gallery of the sort that opponents try to paint it as.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024
The industrializing world’s pursuit of rapid economic growth is contingent on the expansion of on-demand power generation of the sort that only fossil fuels and nuclear energy can provide.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 13 June 2024
Conservatives such as Richard Vedder, emeritus professor of economics at Ohio University and a senior fellow at the Independent Institute, a libertarian think tank, point to DEI programs as an example of the sort of non-instructional spending that has increased in recent years.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2024
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