The phrase "a sort of ground" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that serves as a basis or foundation for a concept, idea, or argument.
Example: "In her research, she established a sort of ground for understanding the impact of climate change on local ecosystems."
Alternatives: "a kind of foundation" or "a type of basis".
The bottom mark, which acts like a sort of ground stroke, is made by the biggest paintbrush in one swoop, left to right.
In other words, the dictionaries of geographic place names are a sort of ground truth that we can use to match against unstructured data entered by users.
In the early years of jazz in New Orleans, musicians like Edward (Kid) Ory (who led the best band in the city, featuring at various times Joe Oliver, Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet and a teenage Louis Armstrong) developed "tailgate" style, in which the trombone serves as a hinge between melody and rhythm, improvising a sort of ground bass behind the trumpet lead and clarinet obbligato.
As a corollary we obtain the existence of spectral gap for a related semigroup obtained by a sort of ground state transformation.
The point is that curve (2) is not chemically minimized, although it is very often assumed to be in the DFT invoked by the chemical reactivity literature [13, 26 29]; however, the curve cannot be considered indicative of a sort of ground state (neither reactive nor critical states of Figure 1).
Seattle was quickly fashioned into a sort of ground zero for a heated (and wonky) debate between experts.
It turns out that the look back was a sort of ground-clearing for a new artistic direction, one that Truffaut didn't live to take.
What distinguishes her is a sort of grounded curiosity.
Now they both live in South Florida, a sort of ground-zero of the opioid recovery industry—a place where people go to get clean, but often end up on the streets because of lapsed insurance or a lack of space in treatment facilities.
You have to know what you can build on, while also giving yourself a sort of grounding point to help you remember that you are, in fact, a total fox.
The city became a sort of testing ground, the laboratory for the development of the American skyscraper.
