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
The families of the missing are now demanding answers and justice, from the new Syria – which held its first parliamentary election, of a sort, earlier this month.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 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
There were several false starts and fresh choices, but by ni-Frith they had three scrapes of a sort.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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