of one kind/sort/type or another
idiom
—used to indicate that the speaker is referring to a range of items that could fit a description
I need a fastener of one kind/sort/type or another.
Examples of of one kind/sort/type or another in a Sentence
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Almost every season, the state of refereeing seems to be in a crisis of one kind or another, as game-swinging calls are missed or botched.
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Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
Many of its members — designers, hair and makeup artists, stylists, photographers — grew up as outcasts of one kind or another, shunned in their hometowns for being too gay, too outré, too strange, too other.
—Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
Many voters who were themselves idealists of one kind or another—including, most notably, pro-life Christians—supported his candidacy in explicitly pragmatic terms.
—Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
Still, even the best modern big-budget video game narratives tend to focus on power fantasies of one type or another.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2023
The trans-Atlantic liberal order Locke helped to bring about finds itself under assault from all sides by people determined to replace it with tyranny of one kind or another.
—Barton Swaim, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
To some extent, grocery shortages of one kind or another have been an increasingly commonplace occurrence in parts of the US in the aftermath of the pandemic.
—Andy Meek, BGR, 13 May 2022
But stains of one kind or another are all over Ruscha’s work.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
Experiencing trauma of one type or another is not rare.
—Markalain Déry, STAT, 19 Feb. 2023
Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
Many of its members — designers, hair and makeup artists, stylists, photographers — grew up as outcasts of one kind or another, shunned in their hometowns for being too gay, too outré, too strange, too other.
—Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
Many voters who were themselves idealists of one kind or another—including, most notably, pro-life Christians—supported his candidacy in explicitly pragmatic terms.
—Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
Still, even the best modern big-budget video game narratives tend to focus on power fantasies of one type or another.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2023
The trans-Atlantic liberal order Locke helped to bring about finds itself under assault from all sides by people determined to replace it with tyranny of one kind or another.
—Barton Swaim, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
To some extent, grocery shortages of one kind or another have been an increasingly commonplace occurrence in parts of the US in the aftermath of the pandemic.
—Andy Meek, BGR, 13 May 2022
But stains of one kind or another are all over Ruscha’s work.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
Experiencing trauma of one type or another is not rare.
—Markalain Déry, STAT, 19 Feb. 2023
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