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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a kind of thing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a category or type of something in a general sense.
Example: "This is a kind of thing that often goes unnoticed in our daily lives."
Alternatives: "a type of thing" or "a sort of thing".
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It might be a kind of thing where I don't play for three, four or five days.
Sometimes you can see his innermost thoughts — the purity, the clarity, a kind of thing that is truly good.
"I don't think it's a kind of thing that can be prepared for; it just has to be lived through".
He brought a kind of thing into American theatre that only the Europeans had — you know, Reinhardt and Otto Brahm and all those people.
A person is ambushed and overwhelmed by something external and other; prophecy is not a kind of knowledge you possess but a kind of thing that possesses you.
"The apple is a kind of thing that we can't reach," said Ms. Kabakov, who wore a tight ski band around choppy gray hair.
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If magazines are to survive, they'll have to become something special, offering heft and a kind of "thing-ness" that gives them value over other ways of consuming text.
This way of defining a kind of things from a relation between things is perfectly legitimate and altogether open-ended.
DEBORAH TREISMAN: More likely, a once-a-decade kind of thing.
I'm hoping it's a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing.
It's a one-in-a-million kind of thing".
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