different sort

collocation in English

meaningsofdifferentandsort

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different
adjective
uk
/ˈdɪf.ər.ənt/us
/ˈdɪf.ɚ.ənt/
not ...
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sort
noun
uk
/sɔːt/us
/sɔːrt/
a group of things that are of the same type or that share ...
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(Definition ofdifferentandsortfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdifferent sort

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Adifferentsortof question about inequalities is the following.
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The other accident is of adifferentsort.
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Maimonides presents a hard line of adifferentsortconcerning responsibility.
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The book does nod in the direction of another verydifferentsortof elucidation.
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But you said they might have adifferentsortof knowledge, is that what you said?
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To have determined these questions would have demanded adifferentsortof book.
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Compare adifferentsortof case, where only an attitude changes.
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Again, it is something that is very abstract but in adifferentsortof way here.
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These more intelligent agents can now receive a reward for adifferentsortof partial recognition.
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I think it humanizes them in adifferentsortof way.
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It is adifferentsortof argument in adifferentsortof situation.
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But their great men are of a verydifferentsort, and their statues are put up for very different reasons.
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In other types of applications it might be possible to specify ' 'interesting' ' states of adifferentsort.
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Indeed, it may be the more substantial body of disability-oriented arguments are of a substantiallydifferentsort.
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Furthermore, social considerations suggest that migration from the birth-place was adifferentsortof mobility from daily mobility.
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Adifferentsortof evidence regarding the salience of peer influences on risk has emerged from prevention studies.
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The rest is practice of adifferentsort: recording cases of cruelty and humiliation, collecting information about them, explaining them, fighting them.
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Repetition of trials, we suggest, is just adifferentsortof design variable from deception, scripting, and the use of financial incentives.
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What they had in mind was knowledge of adifferentsort, the kind that was conducive to the forging of a strong and powerful nation.
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You can find adifferentsortof magnetism in magstripe, a strip found on swipe cards, magnetic resonance imaging, and magnetic money.
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A verydifferentsortof reference work is the group of texts, some issued very recently, which list the names of blockcarvers.
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To be sure there is value of adifferentsortin this type of tightly focused scholarship, even for the boldest of explorers.
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It is adifferentsortof debate.
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This is adifferentsortof assembly.
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They are adifferentsortof priorities.
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