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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Witnessing the rigor of the fact-checking process and getting a hint of the sort of people who would gravitate toward this demanding job is fun!
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
Yet this promising start devolved into a prime example of the sort of cynical assholery that today would be called a hot take, or even clickbait.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
But broad restrictions on gathering gender data, or conducting studies that take race or ethnicity into account, could upend most research that collects information on people—amounting to a kind of health censorship of the sort that Bhattacharya has promised to purge.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2025
In any case, the danger with making too much of the Brewers is that, for nearly two months, no one talked about Uecker Magic or anything of the sort.
—Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
Yet this promising start devolved into a prime example of the sort of cynical assholery that today would be called a hot take, or even clickbait.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
But broad restrictions on gathering gender data, or conducting studies that take race or ethnicity into account, could upend most research that collects information on people—amounting to a kind of health censorship of the sort that Bhattacharya has promised to purge.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2025
In any case, the danger with making too much of the Brewers is that, for nearly two months, no one talked about Uecker Magic or anything of the sort.
—Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Of the sort.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/of%20the%20sort. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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