all kinds of
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Also, . All or many varieties of something, as in Before the banquet, they served all kinds of drinks , or He sold exotic fruit of all sorts , or The museum featured all manner of artifacts . [Early 1300s]
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A large amount of something, as in She has all kinds of money . This hyperbolic usage is colloquial.
Example Sentences
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"Now that we know that these immune cells actually can get into the brain, we can think about all kinds of new engineering strategies to have those peripheral immune cells do useful things."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Going beyond that "creates all kinds of compounding problems that the Navy then has to deal with down the line."
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
The Wall Street Journal found dozens of examples of ticketing failures involving all kinds of events—a Knicks game, a “Hamilton” performance, a George Strait concert and a Bill Gates book talk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
"We get calls, crazy calls, for all kinds of things," says Dondrell Hopson, the fire department's captain.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Israel, who was in Bat’s group, kept asking him all kinds of annoying questions, like, “Hey, Bat, do you think the lava is red enough?” and “Bat, can you pass me the paste?”
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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