kind of

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1. 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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Golding added: "I think we bring a new spin and a new sort of excitement to Thomas, and we're kind of bringing it back up to date, which is the exciting part."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

With Novack in class, Aggrey would often bike into nearby towns on a 1980s Peugeot bike he bought on Leboncoin, a kind of Craigslist for France.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

“In my Nigerian culture, we don’t really announce this kind of news,” she wrote then.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Though developers are building more single-family homes specifically as rentals, that kind of housing stock is typically more readily available to buyers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Did the lad have some kind of premonition?

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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