The phrase "a sort of baseline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a reference point or standard against which other things can be compared or measured.
Example: "In our study, we established a sort of baseline to evaluate the effectiveness of the new treatment."
Alternatives: "a kind of standard" or "a type of reference point."
Their saving grace is a sort of baseline decency, an ability to refrain from the tawdrier kinds of greed.
I developed the print myself and seem to remember the X-ray machine had made a sort of baseline fog on all my images.
Those were used to judge which riders should be more closely watched during the Tour and to provide a sort of baseline sample to compare against during the three-week race.
The peer's role in preparing his old college friend for one of the toughest chapters in his political career was to play the role of Robert Jay, the counsel for the inquiry, a slight, bearded figure who combines a razor-sharp mind and an encyclopedic command of the vast volumes of documents — known in legal parlance as "bundles" — that form a sort of baseline for the inquiry.
This "Lockean proviso," as Nozick called it (Nozick 1974, p. 175 ff), creates a sort of baseline condition against which the acceptability of any set of coercive arrangements can be judged.
Thus \[p(B\mid A) = \frac{p(B \wedge A)}{p(A)} = \frac{2/6}{3/6} = 2/3.\] Generalizing this idea, we start with the quantity of \(A\ -possibilities A\ -possibilitiesline by putting \(p(as\) in the denominator.
In zoos, scientists are able to gather all sorts of baseline data to aid in evaluating the health of the species in the wild — normal hormonal levels, typical age ranges for fertility, average numbers of eggs in a clutch, and so on.
Environmentalists tout a sort-of pagan eschatology.
He's a sort-of broken Tony Soprano.
You can show almost any gamer a first-person shooter and expect them to be able to pick it up in seconds, but that sort of baseline literacy didn't exist for Hearthstone's genre.
