all kinds of
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Also, . All or many varieties of something, as in Before the banquet, they served all kinds of drinks , or He sold exotic fruit of all sorts , or The museum featured all manner of artifacts . [Early 1300s]
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A large amount of something, as in She has all kinds of money . This hyperbolic usage is colloquial.
Example Sentences
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A formidable presence, a defender's nightmare - too tight and he'll turn you, drop off and he'll bury one from distance, try to tangle and he'll cause you all kinds of chaos.
From BBC
“If you’re a screenwriter and you write a movie and for some reason people don’t come,” he said amid the clatter and conversation in a West Hollywood coffee shop, “you can hide behind the director, you can hide behind the cast, you can hide behind all kinds of things. But if you write a book and nobody buys it, there’s nobody to hide behind.”
From Los Angeles Times
"I slept on the hard ground for 55 nights, 55 days boiling water from a pond where cattle defecate in order to survive, eating dry rice and nothing else. I woke up to the sounds of all kinds of animals, mostly wolves and hyenas, and every day I killed scorpions around the place where I slept," he said in a follow-up post on 16 November.
From BBC
Joe Schifano, head of regulatory affairs at Eventus, says his company’s surveillance tools take in all kinds of data to develop scenarios consistent with insider trading and manipulation.
From Barron's
“What a tavern conveys to me is that it is available for all kinds of times for all kinds of people,” Sullivan said.
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