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Of some sort, but not a typical or perfect specimen. For example, They have a backyard of a kind, but it's tiny. This usage was first recorded in 1895. For a synonym, see of sorts.

one of a kind. A unique instance, as in There are no others like it; this hybrid daylily is one of a kind, or She's extremely generous, one of a kind. Also see two 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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Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
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Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
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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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He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
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All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.
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