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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Services, of the sort Netflix, Facebook, Google, Apple or X — not to mention Disney, Warner Bros. or Comcast — provide to hundreds of millions of European citizens, have been off the table.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
Hopefully a beautiful and informative and provocative display of the sort of creativity and imagination of Black people across a number of centuries.
—Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 6 May 2025
If a left-wing, quasi-Marxist Lincoln is a plausible invention, so is a far-right, conservative one of the sort evoked by Harry V. Jaffa, the godfather of the Claremont Institute.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
But ultimately, the week ended with a pretty good array of extremes in selling pressure and hedging demand of the sort that should turn the risk-reward more favorable for a reflex bounce before too long.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2025
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
Hopefully a beautiful and informative and provocative display of the sort of creativity and imagination of Black people across a number of centuries.
—Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 6 May 2025
If a left-wing, quasi-Marxist Lincoln is a plausible invention, so is a far-right, conservative one of the sort evoked by Harry V. Jaffa, the godfather of the Claremont Institute.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
But ultimately, the week ended with a pretty good array of extremes in selling pressure and hedging demand of the sort that should turn the risk-reward more favorable for a reflex bounce before too long.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2025
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“Of the sort.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/of%20the%20sort. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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