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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

sore
sorely
sorry
SORT   occurs   24 times 14 in BB  •  10 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   sorts
sots
sought
soul

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1.
  ... sort -- and we have come to believe ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
An illness of this sort -- and we have come to believe it an illness -- involves those about us in a way no other human sickness can.


2.
  ... sort may come up during business hours.  BB To Employers, p.146
He may wish to do a lot for other alcoholics and something of the sort may come up during business hours.


3.
  ... sort must be intolerably damaging.  12&12 Step Three, p.38
This very form of faulty dependence has caused many a rebellious alcoholic to conclude that dependence of any sort must be intolerably damaging.


4.
  ... sort of bush-league pinch hitter, to be ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
We began to get over the idea that the Higher Power was a sort of bush-league pinch hitter, to be called upon only in an emergency.


5.
  ... sort of chap we would like our ...  BB To Wives, p.118
We women carry with us a picture of the ideal man, the sort of chap we would like our husbands to be.


6.
  ... sort of effort which we are going ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.19
All of us spend much of our spare time in the sort of effort which we are going to describe.


7.
  ... sort of faith?  BB We Agnostics, p.54
What was that but a sort of faith?


8.
  ... sort of fundamental inquiries that can disclose ...  12&12 Step Four, p.52
These are the sort of fundamental inquiries that can disclose the source of my discomfort and indicate whether I may be able to alter my own conduct and so adjust myself serenely to self-discipline.


9.
  ... sort of life we try to build.  12&12 Step Four, p.49
These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the foundations of whatever sort of life we try to build.


10.
  ... sort of project.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.149
An A.A. group, as such, simply couldn't handle this sort of project.


11.
  ... sort of streamlining.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
They wrote the Foundation(*), A.A.'s headquarters in New York, wanting to know about this sort of streamlining.


12.
  ... sort of thing.  BB Into Action, p.78
Most of us have done that sort of thing.


13.
  ... sort of thing.  BB To Employers, p.149
The right kind of man, the kind who recovers, will not want this sort of thing.


14.
  ... sort of thing can be avoided.  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
This sort of thing can be avoided.


15.
  ... sort of thing decreased the man's chance ...  BB To Employers, p.145
Naturally this sort of thing decreased the man's chance of recovery.


16.
  ... sort of thinking, didn't we?  12&12 Step Eleven, p.100
Yes, we reveled in that sort of thinking, didn't we?


17.
  ... sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic who ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
What sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic who repeats time after time the desperate experiment of the first drink?


18.
  ... sort of thinking had to be abandoned.  BB We Agnostics, p.48
This sort of thinking had to be abandoned.


19.
  ... sort of thinking is fully established in ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.24
When this sort of thinking is fully established in an individual with alcoholic tendencies, he has probably placed himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane.


20.
  ... sort of treatment or outside help.  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
Dr. Harry M. Tiebout, psychiatrist: "As a psychiatrist, I have thought a great deal about the relationship of my specialty to A.A. and I have come to the conclusion that our particular function can very often lie in preparing the way for the patient to accept any sort of treatment or outside help.


21.
  ... sort out those who could get well, ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.155
We'd gather up derelicts from skid rows, sort out those who could get well, and make it possible for the rest to earn their livelihood in a kind of quarantined confinement.


22.
  ... sort, the God of the Atom, maybe, ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.97
No doubt the universe had a "first cause" of some sort, the God of the Atom, maybe, hot and cold by turns.


23.
  ... sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing ...  12&12 Step Four, p.49
But the testimony of A.A.'s who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else.


24.
  ... sort, we have often found this the ...  BB Into Action, p.81
Though there may be justifiable exceptions, and though we wish to lay down no rule of any sort, we have often found this the best course to take.


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