some kind/sort/type of
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—used to indicate that the speaker is referring to a range of items that could fit a description
I need some kind/sort/type of fastener.
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Hundreds of people gathered in Casole d’Elsa on Friday (June 21) and knew nothing except that there would be some kind of concert.
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Billboard Italy, Billboard, 27 June 2024
Although it still hasn’t been announced which members are sick, frontman Eddie Vedder struggled through Pearl Jam’s previous show in Manchester on Tuesday, just the second of the tour leg, with some kind of illness affecting his vocals.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 30 June 2024
For a long time, new computers with UEFI firmware still included some kind of legacy compatibility mode to support operating systems like FreeDOS that will only boot in BIOS mode.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 29 June 2024
So everything seems like some kind of crazy temporal displacement happened.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 26 June 2024
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Billboard Italy, Billboard, 27 June 2024
Although it still hasn’t been announced which members are sick, frontman Eddie Vedder struggled through Pearl Jam’s previous show in Manchester on Tuesday, just the second of the tour leg, with some kind of illness affecting his vocals.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 30 June 2024
For a long time, new computers with UEFI firmware still included some kind of legacy compatibility mode to support operating systems like FreeDOS that will only boot in BIOS mode.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 29 June 2024
So everything seems like some kind of crazy temporal displacement happened.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 26 June 2024
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“Some kind/sort/type of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/some%20kind%2Fsort%2Ftype%20of. Accessed 14 Jul. 2024.
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