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• Be wary of the sort of peer group who are a ton of fun but don’t necessarily watch out for you.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2024
• About the previous sentence, nothing about it is a call to put women in their place, or anything of the sort.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• But Silicon Valley’s recent inventions invite galaxy-brain cogitation of the sort Harari is known for.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
• Her shots betrayed none of the sort of tension that Jabeur’s shots did.
  — Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• What are some of the sort of peak experiences along the way over this past year?
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2022
• This isn't to say Portis should be given 20+ shots per game, or anything of the sort.
  — Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• There’s no central touchscreen of the sort most modern cars have.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
• Since then, however, Ivey hasn’t done anything of the sort.
  — Kyle Whitmire | , al, 25 Apr. 2023
• With a laugh, Thomas admitted nothing of the sort has happened to him.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2022
• Pence seems to have less appetite for fights of the sort that Trump or DeSantis are promising to wage.
  — T.a. Frank, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• Yet the bond vigilante crowd doesn’t tend to believe in miracles of the sort to which Taleb refers.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• But some coffee stores are trialing a system of the sort.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 May 2023
• Experts have noted that SpaceX had nothing of the sort present at their Starship launch.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
• The errand that nearly cost Ralph Yarl his life was of the sort that falls to older brothers everywhere.
  — Christine Hauser, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• The errand that nearly cost Ralph Yarl his life was of the sort that falls to older brothers everywhere.
  — Christine Hauser, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Some pieces of the costumes are exhibited by themselves, as is a replica of the sort of iron collar forced around the necks of enslaved Africans.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• New election laws ensure that nothing of the sort will ever happen.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
• Is this a trick question of the sort that Hessler depicts his children completing in third-grade math class, the kind designed to trip students up?
  — The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• No president before Trump has ever claimed anything of the sort.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
• Building a true intelligence of the sort that lives inside a robot is a grand challenge.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2023
• Building a true intelligence of the sort that lives inside a robot is a grand challenge.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2023
• And that was based, Mr. Miller, on Matt and the data team’s assessment of the sort of county-by-county, state-by-state results as reported?
  — Aaron Blake, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2022
• This is a straw man argument of the sort Williams delights in, in his Sun platform on the editorial pages.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
• 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.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• The only acknowledgment of the sort is when the Höss children are swimming in a river and Höss sees ashes and bits of remains floating in the water.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2024
• China doesn’t have the same privacy restrictions and laws that in the West stop some harvesting of the sort of data that are used by AI, critics say.
  — Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
• The Realtek chip inside will not be running Plex, a torrent downloader, or anything of the sort (nor does the OS support that).
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 29 July 2024
• Sitting at the center of Expats is a mystery of the sort that’s fueled countless crime dramas, and countless more true-crime series.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
• There is plenty of the sort of officious nit-picking beloved of sports authorities.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• Because there is also a lot of football in the four episodes—spectacular highlights of the sort to delight even a person who doesn’t like football.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024