also so called
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
You use so-called to indicate that you think a word or expression used to describe someone or something is in fact wrong.
These are the facts that explode their so-called economic miracle...
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2.
You use so-called to indicate that something is generally referred to by the name that you are about to use.
...a summit of the world’s seven leading market economies, the so-called G-7...
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