adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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So many people are self-proclaimed environmentalists that it doesn't mean much anymore.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From his self-proclaimed position as guardian of the rightwing flock, he has become a sacrificial lamb.
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He held talks with governments and leaders of self-proclaimed republics and with opposition leaders.
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He is the self-proclaimed champion of the huge and virtuous middle class, to which everyone but Bill Gates belongs.
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He is the self-proclaimed outsider who knows Washington; the former secretary of education who proposes to abolish the department.
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Thus far, though, the undisputed king of chat is the self-proclaimed King of Pop, Michael Jackson.
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Yet no one who knew the man disputes that Robey might well have knocked down the self-proclaimed king of rock & roll.