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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In the months following, the two blondies, whom audiences never saw substantively interact on the show, started dating despite Carton denying anything of the sort to Nick Viall while on his Viall Files podcast.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 July 2025
All the better, these majority-white neighborhoods, for the open-armed arrival of large-scale commercial property ventures of the sort that has helped make Old National one of the fastest-growing banks in the nation.
—Jonathon Sturgeon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
To suggest government spending boosts economic growth is double counting of the sort that would make even the most crooked accountants blush.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
What can be said, and quite definitively, is that, in a warming world, flooding of the sort that occurred in Texas will be more common.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 12 July 2025
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 July 2025
All the better, these majority-white neighborhoods, for the open-armed arrival of large-scale commercial property ventures of the sort that has helped make Old National one of the fastest-growing banks in the nation.
—Jonathon Sturgeon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
To suggest government spending boosts economic growth is double counting of the sort that would make even the most crooked accountants blush.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
What can be said, and quite definitively, is that, in a warming world, flooding of the sort that occurred in Texas will be more common.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 12 July 2025
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“Of the sort.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/of%20the%20sort. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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