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The phrase "a sort of ancestral" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that resembles or relates to ancestry or heritage in a vague or non-specific way.
Example: "The festival was a sort of ancestral celebration, honoring the traditions passed down through generations."
Alternatives: "a kind of heritage" or "a type of ancestral".
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Really!" The premise of Assassin's Creed, movie and game, is that human DNA is a sort of ancestral browsing history, through which it's possible to access the experiences of your forebears in real time, almost like time travel.
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A: Sort of.
Earlier this week, his campaign visited Barack's sort-of ancestral home in El Dorado, Kan., a small town outside Wichita where the community college gym was rocking.
Mr. Gurney's "Ancestral Voices," a sort of "Love Letters" reading/hybrid play, expanded to five characters, spanning three generations, has been seen two nights a week at Lincoln Center, with stellar casts in intermittent runs.
So as the UK declined in relative terms, becoming a sort of uneasy junior partner to the rising US despite being its ancestral Mother Country, and as the British Empire slowly inexorably became the Commonwealth, Fleming invented his secret agent.
"A sort of blank".
A sort of aspic.
A sort of monster.
"A sort of dream.
A Sort of Insurance Policy.
Given that lack of informative variation is not a satisfactory explanation for the discrepant results observed between mtDNA and nuclear genealogies, we are left with two possible scenarios, which are not mutually exclusive: a) incomplete lineage sorting of ancestral polymorphism and b) gene flow, particularly male-biased.
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