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Also, sort of . Rather, somewhat, as in I'm kind of hungry , or The bird looked sort of like a sparrow . [ Colloquial ; c. 1800] This usage should not be confused with a kind of or a sort of , which are much older and refer to a borderline member of a given category (as in a kind of a shelter or a sort of a bluish color ). Shakespeare had this usage in Two Gentlemen of Verona (3:1): “My master is a kind of a knave.” Also see of a kind .

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“I have students who look at ’60 Minutes’ and say ‘that’s the kind of person I want to be.’

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“I played a lot of running back in youth ball,” Schwesinger said, “so you just kind of end up getting a feel for where the backs are going to go.”

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“I tried many times, but it never worked out. I had no idea that God had any kind of a calling on my life.”

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It is not something I associate with any one person but rather with a particular time, this time, a certain kind of day, a specific smell in the air.

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"Everything is on the table, our food system, our water, our air, different ways of parenting, all the kind of changes that may have triggered this epidemic," Kennedy later told Fox News.

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