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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But by the mid-1930s, Soviet leaders sensed that people needed something to take the edge off in the dead of winter, a carnivalesque custom of the sort that Christmas once provided.
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Andrew Fedorov, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025
And try to summon, from our pallid, hazy situation, vistas of the sort that draw so sweet and pure a gaze.
—David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
More generalized assistants, of the sort envisioned by Altman, would require agents to leave the comfortable constraints of the terminal.
—Cal Newport, New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2025
The reportage-style section, loosely referencing gushing interviews of the sort seen in Zoolander and featuring Marc Jacobs and Char Defrancesco, precedes the denouement, a fashion show with models wearing full looks from Marc Jacobs’s spring 2025 collection.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2025
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Andrew Fedorov, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025
And try to summon, from our pallid, hazy situation, vistas of the sort that draw so sweet and pure a gaze.
—David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
More generalized assistants, of the sort envisioned by Altman, would require agents to leave the comfortable constraints of the terminal.
—Cal Newport, New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2025
The reportage-style section, loosely referencing gushing interviews of the sort seen in Zoolander and featuring Marc Jacobs and Char Defrancesco, precedes the denouement, a fashion show with models wearing full looks from Marc Jacobs’s spring 2025 collection.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2025
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