all kinds of

1. Also, all manner or sorts of . All or many varieties of something, as in Before the banquet, they served all kinds of drinks , or He sold exotic fruit of all sorts , or The museum featured all manner of artifacts . [Early 1300s]

2. A large amount of something, as in She has all kinds of money . This hyperbolic usage is colloquial.

Example Sentences

“That permeates into all kinds of areas of our lives and all kinds of domains within the tech industry.”

From Los Angeles Times

It is the computational processing of images that reveals the finest details of a sample placed under all kinds of different light microscopes.

From Science Daily

Zilbalodis laments that almost “every scene required a new tool to be developed. It’s not like we have one tool for all kinds of water. We have a tool for a puddle, we have a tool for a lake, a stormy sea, a small splash, a big splash. So, we had to develop a lot of new technology and tools.”

From Los Angeles Times

Kennedy is an anti-vax crank who wants to pull vaccines from the market, who wants to halt research into diseases at HHS, who wants to blow up the biopharma industry and halt decades of progress in treating all kinds of ailments.

From Slate

“We feel like we can do all kinds of music, and we do, but country has always been what we love doing most. It just speaks to us.”

From Los Angeles Times

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