of one kind/sort/type or another

idiom

—used to indicate that the speaker is referring to a range of items that could fit a description

I need a fastener of one kind/sort/type or another.

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The most memorable productions may have involved classics of one kind or another, but these works were reborn in stagings that refused to play it safe. —

Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024 Except for some years teaching English abroad, all of my jobs have been as a writer of one sort or another. —

Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2024 The Middle East has not been without a great-power overseer of one kind or another since the Ottoman conquests of the sixteenth century. —

Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2016 Think about fields of one kind or another that may have not yet been explored for applying a generative AI or LLM-like capability. —

Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for of one kind/sort/type or another

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of one's very own

of one kind/sort/type or another

of one mind

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