so-called
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Prices excluding food and energy categories—the so-called core measure economists watch in an effort to better capture inflation’s underlying trend—rose 2.9% on the year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
The so-called 'Golden Generation' failed to deliver on the pitch, losing to Portugal on penalties.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Open a so-called tradwife store and the tourists will come.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
And inspiration is easy to find in this piece of North America’s so-called “Galapagos,” where the Pacific sparkles in the background of any burn scar.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
He had no choice: Among the people who gave him money there was pretty obviously a built-in skepticism of so-called macro thinking.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing so-called
Booked
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The Losers Club
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We Are Displaced
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