- [only before noun] used to show that you do not think that the word or phrase that is being used to describe somebody/something is appropriate
- the opinion of a so-called ‘expert’
- How have these so-called improvements helped the local community?
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- [usually before noun] used to introduce the word that people usually use to describe something
- artists from the so-called ‘School of London’
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