Sentence examples for a kind of generic from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a kind of generic" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to describe something that is somewhat generic or lacks specificity, but the phrasing is awkward.
Example: "The product was a kind of generic version of the popular brand, lacking unique features."
Alternatives: "somewhat generic" or "a sort of generic".

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As for "Bubba," it is a kind of generic nickname bestowed because part of the plant's origin is unknown.

The weak point in these works is Ms. Amos's drawing, which alternates between semi-photographic realism and a kind of generic gestural brushiness.

So the design evolved into a kind of generic version of one of Wright's prairie houses, blown up to vast scale and set in open, rolling farmland.

Instead they project a kind of generic individuality, with shared tastes that ensure a measure of compatibility — they both like the Smiths!

In those days, when an accent seemed required at all, a kind of generic funny-foreigner-speak was often considered sufficient.

Although Mr. Kahn has transposed "Red Lights" to a kind of generic France, it is one of Simenon's so-called American novels, about a New York couple traveling to Maine.

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Only by the bizarre logic of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry does this drug count as any kind of generic.

The country you show is a kind of a generic sub-Saharan African country in turmoil.

"Gabriel Batistuta's 20 best goals ever" is not uncommon in its use of a kind of perfectly generic thudding eurotrance that makes everything feel slightly more intense than it should.

Such generalizations, such as "pit bulls maul children" or "Muslims are terrorists", can be thought of as a particular kind of generic statement, which Leslie (forthcoming) calls a "striking property generic".

It's inconsequentially there, as a song, it means nothing and says nothing, but simultaneously it is something pliant and malleable, something that can co-exist as a kind of barefaced pisstake of generic tropes while being appreciated viscerally by those who are happy to listen without theory.

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