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of sorts

Idioms  
  1. Also, of a sort. Of a kind, especially a mediocre or somewhat different kind. For example, He was wearing a jacket of sorts but no tie, or They established a constitutional government of a sort. [c. 1900]


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Schlesser, the tousle-haired son of a writer, is about to publish a follow-up of sorts called the "The Gardener’s Cat", which focuses on the healing power of poetry.

From Barron's

The transaction would ultimately serve as a blueprint of sorts for the tie-up between SpaceX and xAI.

From The Wall Street Journal

And to select theaters this weekend comes “Pillion,” starring Mr. Skarsgård as another fantasy lover of sorts, though in a very different kind of relationship.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet this memoir is a framing of sorts, imposing shape on an experience that cast her life in dark hues and left her, if not in the shadows, then perpetually watching out for another shadow to fall.

From The Wall Street Journal

But it would allow him to claim a victory for Russia of sorts.

From BBC