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developed a new kind of slave
As one of our keen-minded writers has said, “The machine has developed a new kind of slave and doomed him to produce through long and weary hours a senseless glut of things; and then forced him to suffer for lack of the very things he has produced.”
— from Men and Things by Henry A. Atkinson

developing a new kind of soap
A company for developing a new kind of soap.
— from The Abominations of Modern Society by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

devised a novel kind of spectacle
The emperor Gordian devised a novel kind of spectacle; he converted the Circus into a temporary kind of wood, and turned into it two hundred stags, thirty wild horses, one hundred wild sheep, ten elks, one hundred Cyprian bulls, three hundred ostriches, thirty wild asses, one hundred and fifty wild boars, two hundred ibices, and two hundred deer.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

develop a new kind of specialist
Every time they develop a new kind of specialist they gain in prestige and emolument.
— from Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series] by Henry Seidel Canby

discovered a new kind of sarcasm
He alone has discovered a new kind of sarcasm, and it is this sarcasm that keeps him, and may long keep him, from general popularity.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 4 (of 8) The Hour-glass. Cathleen ni Houlihan. The Golden Helmet. The Irish Dramatic Movement by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats


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