kind of

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“Operation Bear Claw” was definitely a new kind of insurance fraud case.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

You’re kind of distinguishing her from what we now think of as YA, “Young Adult.”

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

"This was kind of the easier mission, so there's lots of work still to be done," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

“We’re kind of living one month to the next,” Roland Lescure, France’s minister of economy and finance, said in an interview on Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“Am I imagining things because I’m frightened? But it wasn’t like that! It was real. Oh Betsie, was it a kind of vision?”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom