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in kind

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1. in kind - Adjective

2. in kind - Adverb

3. in kind - Phrase

Meaning

with something of the same kind

Source: WordNet

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Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth. Johannes Kepler

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them. Asa Gray

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind. Douglas Preston

When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind. Ward Churchill

And as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children. Osama bin Laden

I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference. Danny Elfman

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