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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Most people first encountered Harris as a junior senator from California, when she became known in hearings for cross-examinations of the sort that might leave char marks on a steak.
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Nathan Heller, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
Just 13% of the defendants — a little over two dozen — have been accused of the sort of violent crimes that lawmakers cited when arguing for the legislation, such as rape, armed robbery and murder.
—ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2024
Arkani-Hamed and his collaborators aspire to bring about a conceptual revolution of the sort that rocked physics in the late 1700s.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Ohtani just did something nobody in baseball history has matched, or ever will match, combining the power of a strongman with the skill of a sprinter, creating a complete hitter of the sort that the game never has employed.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
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Nathan Heller, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
Just 13% of the defendants — a little over two dozen — have been accused of the sort of violent crimes that lawmakers cited when arguing for the legislation, such as rape, armed robbery and murder.
—ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2024
Arkani-Hamed and his collaborators aspire to bring about a conceptual revolution of the sort that rocked physics in the late 1700s.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Ohtani just did something nobody in baseball history has matched, or ever will match, combining the power of a strongman with the skill of a sprinter, creating a complete hitter of the sort that the game never has employed.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
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