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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What can be said, and quite definitively, is that, in a warming world, flooding of the sort that occurred in Texas will be more common.
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Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 12 July 2025
Andrew Unterberger: The evolution to me is less in the song than in the music video, which feels like a continuation of the sort of surreal party videos that Diane Martel did for Miley Cyrus in the mid-’10s.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 17 June 2025
But these laws don’t cover blanket tariffs of the sort Trump introduced on April 2nd.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
It was surgically designed to affect exclusively Russian military hardware, hardware of the sort that Russia has been using to mount its own strikes on Ukraine, far less scrupulously aware of civilian casualties.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 3 June 2025
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Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 12 July 2025
Andrew Unterberger: The evolution to me is less in the song than in the music video, which feels like a continuation of the sort of surreal party videos that Diane Martel did for Miley Cyrus in the mid-’10s.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 17 June 2025
But these laws don’t cover blanket tariffs of the sort Trump introduced on April 2nd.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
It was surgically designed to affect exclusively Russian military hardware, hardware of the sort that Russia has been using to mount its own strikes on Ukraine, far less scrupulously aware of civilian casualties.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 3 June 2025
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“Of the sort.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/of%20the%20sort. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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