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
“And so we are seeing judicial opinions of a sort that we have not seen before either.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
"We have hired private investigators and there have been sightings of him, but we have not been given any hard evidence of a sort of residence or location in a certain place," the liquidator says.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
One of the pieces of evidence here is a confession of a sort.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2024
The milpa is an elaboration of this natural situation, unlike ordinary farms, which involve singlecrop expanses of a sort rarely observed in unplowed landscapes.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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