“About 200 guests were invited and entertained to lunch in the so-called booking hall at Waterloo; the contractors, Spiers & Pond Limited, were much praised for organising the repast, with attendant cloak room facilities, so well in such unfavourable surroundings.”

“Another Canadian example is that of the so-called Halfback Program ⟳ initiated in the province of Ontario. With this scheme state lottery tickets with which no prizes are won retain ⟳ 50% of the value of their initial cost ⟳ […]”

“... I hadn't met any straight women at the gay bars — a few so called "fag hags" fraternizing with the boys, of course, but ...”

“The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer ⟳ so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar with the offer ⟳ said, part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to shrink ⟳ the federal government and shape ⟳ it to his agenda.”

“These so-called "assistants" are making our jobs harder, not easier!”

“[…]dawdling away the hours in the Park ⟳ as if all the world and its millions of honest hard workers were created solely for the casual diversion of the so-called 'upper' classes,[…]”

“So-called Orthodox synagogues who organized mixed dances in order ⟳ to raise ⟳ money for various causes.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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