The phrase "a sort of core" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that serves as a central or fundamental part of a larger concept or system.
Example: "At the heart of the project, there is a sort of core principle that guides all our decisions."
Alternatives: "a kind of essence" or "a type of foundation".
The approach has reënergized Navalny's work by supplying it with a sort of spiritual core: the investigations are conducted and presented as if the corruption they uncover were not hopelessly self-evident.
"You needed to feel it was a journey for her, and Florence had the innocence but also a sort of steely core.
If we consider these 27 hubs and the proteins interacting directly with them, we identify a sort of central core of the TGFβ1 interactome (network) consisting of 1235 proteins, 115 of which were differentially expressed.
There's more real cognition at work and on display in Shane Carruth's "Upstream Color" and Terrence Malick's "To the Wonder" — neither of which depict people who make a living from intellectual pursuits — than in this movie, which comes off as a sort of soft-core philosophical porn.
A team with this sort of core, assembled at that time, could have grown as a group and, perhaps, dominated the sport for a decade.
They were all under $100m, they were all in the earlier stages of their development, they were all very small teams – and I think their acquirers saw them as a sort of sidebar to their core competency.
We've seen a few systems (mainly laptops) come with the Intel Core i3, a sort of entry level, dual core processor.
Since that rebrand rolled out, Zenefits seems to be following the sort of drip-drip-drip of updates that many startups trying to create a sort of "home" for a core employee experience utilize.
The field is thought to have been generated by the churning movement of fluids within the moon's molten core – a sort of lunar dynamo.
It was, at its core, a sort of app store with multiple features including chat, weather, mail, and photo storage.
I was thinking of purchasing a workstation with a number of cores as a sort of local testing ground for models that I might try to expand and run on a cluster later.
