For instance, conspiracy theorists use "shadow counsel" to refer to the secret police or any sort of hidden persons with power.

In Ancient Greek, it was used to refer to any sort of petroleum or pitch.

In other contexts, the term trump card can refer to any sort of action, authority, or policy which automatically prevails over all others.

The German noun strolch refers to any sort of vagabond or rogue.

"All this was jungle" - a word that in Indian parlance refers to any sort of land in a state of nature.

This term refers to any sort of material designed and engineered at the nanometer scale for a specific task.

He was not, however, referring to any sort of employee profit-sharing plan.

Forced speech refers to any sort of speech which is coerced from an individual by legal or extrajudicial means.

Imperfect used if this refers to any sort of habitual action, i.e. the person had or took a bath every morning.

The name has since been used by many to refer to any sort of pop-up help text.