ilk
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8.6
- noun
- /ɪlk/
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- "Mystery meat" and its ilk are no longer good enough.
- others of that ilk
That's what Elon Musk and his ilk do all the time.
- That's what Elon Musk and his ilk do all the time.
- And other comments of that ilk start to creep into the relationship.
- But maybe he and his ilk feel otherwise.
- But you have to have thought leaders who are not all of the von Neumann ilk.
- And whoever comes in that space will be of the same ilk and energy because that's what I am, bro.
- So then you get your Hitler's and your Idi Amins and your murderous military dictators of all ilk.
- But he has his ups and downs and we check in on him and he, he, he's very much of that ilk.
- Those guys are of a very disciplined ilk, just just like people that are really into their art of any form.
- You take many random variables of whatever ilk, and you add them together and the sum has a nice simple Gaussian distribution.
- That's that's of that kind of ilk which has been on the shelves.
- He was a man in that kind of sort of ilk.
- And I've always been of the ilk that I think they should have to have one candidate.
Examples
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"That's the problem with people of your ilk," Esteban said.
Fiction book (1998) -
In the old days, I specifically told people of your ilk to buy their own drinks.
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But maybe he and his ilk feel otherwise.
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Men of their ilk were not prepared to take no for an answer.
Fiction book (2002) -
The New Morality and their ilk have a pretty tight grip on the news media.
Fiction book (2001) -
As you know, gazakov and his ilk are bad people.
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In the past 10 years, other institutions of our ilk have chosen to liberalize their curriculum.
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The Lays and their ilk have made no gesture to the thousands of people they damaged.
Academic text (2004) -
Most people, you know, don't go around looking for opportunities to strike up conversations with total strangers about life and death and religion and things of that ilk.
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People of my ilk often face criticism for their unconventional views.
Synonyms
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6.4
People and things that are like someone and that people often mention to show surprise or dislike
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5.7
A person or thing of the same kind
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word ilk comes from an old word meaning 'the same', so it refers to a 'type' or 'kind' of person or thing. A helpful way to remember it is to think of ilk like 'like' — when people say 'of that ilk' they mean 'of that same kind', often with a disapproving tone.