of a sort
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Largely ignored by his parents, he failed to develop normal social skills, but as compensation of a sort, in Mr. Margolick’s words, “with distance came a knack for scrutinizing and mimicking other people.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Such fantasies were an instructive form of projection, of a sort that may seem oddly familiar today.
From Salon • Oct. 19, 2024
Shahar and the rest of the soccer team will make history of a sort just by showing up.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 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
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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