The phrase "a sort of best" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in informal contexts to suggest a type of best option or example, but clarity may be compromised.
Example: "This is a sort of best practice for managing your time effectively."
Alternatives: "kind of best" or "type of best".
StumbleUpon has about 12 million sites in its database, a sort of "best of the Web" compiled by users of the service.
For several years, supersymmetry has been a sort of best bet to be the next step beyond the Standard Model, which is undefeated in experiments but has enormous gaps.
David Aufhauser, the Treasury's general counsel, underscored that the guidelines were voluntary, "a sort of best of best practices" and not "a jurisprudence of what you should and should not do".
So we made a sort of best guess and we built up the team around that guess.
The $50,000 price tag is also a sort of "best guess," with the actual value of the item totally unknown.
And a large part of the page is dedicated to helping non-profits connect with the Twitter community, as a sort of best practices guide.
It's a sort of best-of-all-worlds composite, with the famous Gate of Death and Crematorium IV from Auschwitz.
Like a lot of Strand-hounds, Smith began using the review-copy tables as a sort of best-seller list in reverse.
Such scenes make up a sort of best-case fantasy of Japanese who realize that their country will have to open up to outsiders: as long as the change is imperceptible, the nuisance will be tolerable.
So I thought if we could Frankenstein a bank together from banks that are there and are getting certain aspects of the engagement right, it might actually be possible to construct a sort of best-practice bank.
Google can combine the personalized recommendations of a friend (who often know us better than we know ourselves) with the sum of all human knowledge, creating a sort of super best friend.
