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Also, sort of. Rather, somewhat, as in I'm kind of hungry, or The bird looked sort of like a sparrow. [Colloquial; c. 1800] This usage should not be confused with a kind of or a sort of, which are much older and refer to a borderline member of a given category (as in a kind of a shelter or a sort of a bluish color). Shakespeare had this usage in Two Gentlemen of Verona (3:1): “My master is a kind of a knave.” Also see of a kind.

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Submission is less a novel of ideas than a political book, and of the most subversive kind.
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His discourse is now more detailed: submission, which is the meaning of islam in Arabic, gives him a kind of enjoyment.
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Patrick Klugman, the deputy mayor of Paris, said: “We are living our kind of 9/11,” he said.
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When I was in Holland, this is the kind of thing people feared.
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He appeared to understand however belatedly that he was in the presence of another kind of greatness.
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Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
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The relation existing between the balmy plant and the commerce of the world is of the strongest kind.
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"She used to be so well—so bright," said Angela, who also appeared to have the desire to say something kind and comfortable.
Confidence|Henry James
What he has done in any one species or distinct kind of writing would have been sufficient to have acquired him a great name.
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I tell you, madam, most distinctly and emphatically, that it is bread pudding and the meanest kind at that.'
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