something/anything of the kind
noun phrase
: something like the person or thing mentioned
I'd like to go to a movie or a concert, or something of the kind.
—often used in negative statementsHe said I hung up on him, but I never did anything of the kind!
This technology is completely new. I've never seen anything of the kind before.
Examples of something/anything of the kind in a Sentence
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To that end, LocalThunk has made the game specifically not about actual gambling, or microtransactions, or anything of the kind.
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Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2024
Few artists of the period were doing anything of the kind.
—Margalit Fox, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2024
Shell isn’t planning to do anything of the kind, of course.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
Just write some code or establish a checklist of hateful words, and make sure that the AI never generates anything of the kind.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
Even Bharara, after being fired as US Attorney, went on to have a think group or something of the kind on insider trading laws, which concluded that insider trading laws needed reform.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
There are in fact other options, such as setting a standard that is not strictly viability but still offers protections in a meaningful way, but there were few signs that the conservatives, other than Roberts, were seeing their way to anything of the kind.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2021
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Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2024
Few artists of the period were doing anything of the kind.
—Margalit Fox, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2024
Shell isn’t planning to do anything of the kind, of course.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
Just write some code or establish a checklist of hateful words, and make sure that the AI never generates anything of the kind.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
Even Bharara, after being fired as US Attorney, went on to have a think group or something of the kind on insider trading laws, which concluded that insider trading laws needed reform.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
There are in fact other options, such as setting a standard that is not strictly viability but still offers protections in a meaningful way, but there were few signs that the conservatives, other than Roberts, were seeing their way to anything of the kind.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2021
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“Something/anything of the kind.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/something%2Fanything%20of%20the%20kind. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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