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The phrase "as a distinct sort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to specify or categorize something as a particular type or kind that is separate from others.
Example: "The artist's work can be appreciated as a distinct sort of expression that challenges traditional norms."
Alternatives: "as a unique type" or "as a separate category".
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To take a different example, starting in the 17th century many British (and later other Anglophone) philosophers of law argued for the central importance of judicial institutions for the very existence of a legal system and debated the idea of legal reasoning as a distinct sort of deliberative activity.
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We in this country have a distinct sort of society.
Since the extension of names changes when they are combined to form compounds of the "as hard to white" type, a proponent of this view must insist that the objects denoted by such compounds be treated as distinct from the objects denoted by either of their constituent names: white horses are neither white nor horse, but a distinct sort of thing.
Perhaps, though that smacks of a distinct sort of tokenism.
Retrieval may occur at different points during endosomal maturation, with each pathway using a distinct sorting apparatus.
But a quite distinct sort of claim is also made in the "double standards" debate.
He does not argue for this conclusion fully, though he does challenge his readers to identify a kind of cause which qualifies as a sort distinct from the four mentioned (Phys. 195a4 5).
Muscle EC were then sorted as a distinct Sca-1+ and CD31+ population that was dim for CD34.
After removing artefacts we used principal component based sorting to discriminate single units, identifiable as a distinct cluster of spikes in principal component space with a clear refractory period in their interspike interval distribution.
Robinson, a friend, sees the narrator as a distinct persona.
By 2003, grime had emerged as a distinct sonic entity.
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