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The phrase "assumed the sort of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone or something that has taken on a particular characteristic or quality.
Example: "After years of experience, she assumed the sort of confidence that comes with expertise in her field."
Alternatives: "took on the kind of" or "adopted the manner of".
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He has since assumed the sort of public restraint and presidential solemnity expected of their president by the French.
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Voight's team looks and acts very much like any homicide department, but apparently it has a special mandate: Get the really bad guys (as opposed to, one assumes, the sort-of-bad guys).
In a way, I think it's like the air of toughness he assumes — the sort of thing that makes him sprinkle his conversation with 'ain't's and double negatives".
In "Runway" she, Nuria Divi and Mary Ann Lacey portrayed models, assuming the sorts of languid, haughty and enticing poses associated with fashion shows.
Public companies assume that the sort of people they want to attract as managers need the security of the basic packages they offer.
They are also much too quick to assume that the sort of blueprints that work for city states like Singapore or small countries like Denmark might work for goliaths like the United States.
The larger claim to make would be to assume that the sort of sophistication shown regarding reindeer is potentially applicable to other phenomena as well, so one does not have to be particularly interested in reindeer to be impressed with the intellectual complexity of a language that can do what Sami can do in one word".
Coming across the Vega in their wine rack recently, she assumed it was the sort of good-value red my parents normally drink and used it to make what turned out to be a very expensive stew.
Terrorists already assume this sort of thing is being done.
The dismay about the bulk collection of phone records was broad; many Americans had assumed that this was the sort of thing for which the government needed an individualized warrant, rather than a dragnet.
So when Pure Digital announced that it would be releasing a high-definition Flip, you might have been forgiven for assuming that it meant the sort of pseudo hi-def that's all too common these days.
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