"are broadly called" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to a group of similar items that are classified together under a general name. For example: Pagodas are broadly called asia's iconic temples.
Suddenly she was the boss, faced with the daily challenges of motivating students, negotiating with peers in committee meetings, resolving conflicts in the lab, and a dozen other tasks that require what are broadly called "people skills".
These genes are broadly called tissue-selective genes [ 1].
Plants produce low molecular weight compounds which are broadly called phytochemicals, usually as a mechanism of defence.
The military cuts have put some GOP lawmakers in an awkward position, testing their commitment to budget-trimming at a time when Republicans are broadly calling for austerity.
For many years, the masters of what is broadly called Modern British have been filed away in a box marked "fusty".
This style has been broadly called "flat," because it is largely devoid of the design details that have long suggested depth in popular computer interfaces — things like gradients, elaborate shadows, glossy textures, and reflections.
This is broadly called Deism, a view that the universe, obeying natural laws is an expression of a sort of absent landlord Creator, who set up the rules, and then hasn't really shown up for about 13.82 billion years.
The Intelligent Transportation Society of America, a group that tries to set standards for what is broadly called telematics -- the consumer products and services that can be used in cars -- said last month, when it announced a conference on "driver focus," that the market was exploding.
It may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality and results an unsatisfactory rating.
The combination of these events dramatically accelerated the development of the scientific field now called biotechnology, and it started the legal field that today is broadly called "technology transfer".
We examine anti-windup architectures for linear systems containing what might be broadly called "non-standard actuators" – actuators which may not be easily approximated by simply a saturation or rate-limit, but which are a more complex interconnection between linear elements and sector-bounded nonlinearities.
