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The phrase "a sort of chat" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a conversation that is informal or not strictly defined, often implying a casual or light-hearted exchange.
Example: "We had a sort of chat about our weekend plans over coffee."
Alternatives: "a kind of conversation" or "a type of discussion".
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It's a sort of chat really".
It's a way to signal to your friends that you're in the mood for casual conversation online, and creates a sort of chat room on steroids.
A feature called the People Finder creates a sort of chat room, which shows a random group of other logged-on users, represented by male and female icons.
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"There is going to be a lot of passion, particularly at the start and it is going to be really important for us to finish with 11 players". There's been all sort of chat that the Dougie Freedman is going to be sacked.
This is definitely a problem we've faced internally in some ways, as it sometimes requires creating a sort of group chat in order to get people communicating rather than opening a direct channel for multiple organizations.
It is said that even then the manager would finish his tactical briefings by saying: "Now, listen to what Javier has to say", leaving the Little Chief to pep his team-mates in a sort of second tactical chat that was more concise, tighter, and more practical.
They assassinated an FBI agent who had taught advanced methods of torture to various Latin American governments, and they fed truth serum to celebrities then broadcast the results, like a sort of access all areas chat show.
It seemed, as presumably it was meant to, like a sort of changing of the chat-show guard, and the death-knell of a certain style of chat show.
We were midway into a vague, "How's it goin'?" sort of chat, when she suddenly commented, seemingly out of nowhere, "You seem so busy.
I could have asked the pharmacist that I usually see exactly the same questions but you actually don't ever get the chance to have that two way dialogue with that pharmacist [in the community pharmacy] and the other thing was, in the clinic you were in a private room,…which meant that we could sort of chat.
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