of a kind

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"It was built by a very structured society of hunter-gatherers, of a kind that became sedentary when resources permitted. That or it was made by one of the Neolithic populations that arrived here around 5,000 BC," said archaeologist Yvan Pailler.

From BBC

"But if you have a habitat or crewed mission up on the moon for a whole decade, that's 3,650 days times 1 in 20 million, or the risk of a hazardous moonquake becoming about 1 in 5,500. It's similar to going from the extremely low odds of winning a lottery to much higher odds of being dealt a four of a kind poker hand."

From Science Daily

While there are some fully off-grid dwellers, ranging from high-end desert oases and North Coast communes to the famous counterculture settlement of Imperial County’s “Slab City,” an off-grid suburb is one of a kind.

From Los Angeles Times

The “one of a kind” estate in Cornelius, N.C., has just sped onto the market for $3.4 million, 25 years after it last changed hands.

From MarketWatch

The Babushnikovs were in the grip of a kind of faulty logic that psychologists nowadays call “confirmation bias,” but that the rest of us might simply think of as being Babushkinov, through and through: when new facts threatened to upend their opinions, they simply chose to believe what they wished was true, and ignored all evidence to the contrary.

From Literature