of the sort

phrase

: 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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There’s a fragmented culture where all corners of the entertainment world are struggling to produce new versions of the sort of ubiquitous, four-quadrant successes that consumers recall as regular occurrences in earlier decades. — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2026 That’s not to say anything of the sort is guaranteed soon — single events are never guaranteed this far out — but there are reasons to take this El Niño seriously thanks to just how astonishing some of the numbers are. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2026 What Scholes has done, Müller said, is show how quantumlike behavior can emerge from relatively unremarkable complex networks — of the sort that abound in nature. — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2026 Or the borrowing rush to build AI is an early outbreak of a credit contagion of the sort that broke containment in 2008. — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for of the sort

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“Of the sort.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/of%20the%20sort. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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