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
Clothes can be armor of a sort, and in the high-pressure world of filmmaking, armor is almost a necessity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024
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
One of the pieces of evidence here is a confession of a sort.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2024
This is progress of a sort, but it’s also repression, since it means that pop culture has succeeded to a considerable extent in burying something that used to be right out in the open.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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