of a sort
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Although ghosts of a sort do eventually appear, they are in human skins and human-scaled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The were different levels of interactivity, as one show gave us interview prompts, another had us act as puppeteers of a sort, and elsewhere we were instructed to do some rudimentary bad street dancing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025
But also in a bit of a sort of a cheeky comment from them, they said were “vigorously gathering intelligence” at this time.
From BBC ● May 22, 2024
He’s referring to the miniseries he made after leaving “Doctor Who” – another time-traveling tale of a sort, only set on Earth and bound by gravity’s rules.
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
In 1844, the philosopher Auguste Comte was searching for an example of a sort of knowledge that would be always hidden.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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