This phrase is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when introducing a name, phrase, or idea that is commonly referred to by the words that follow. For example, "We often call this disease 'the common cold'."
In a study by the Cornell University psychologists Gary Evans and Dana Johnson, clerical workers who were exposed to open-office noise for three hours had increased levels of epinephrine — a hormone that we often call adrenaline, associated with the so-called fight-or-flight response.
In a study by the Cornell University psychologists Gary Evans and Dana Johnson, clerical workers who were exposed to open-office noise for three hours had increased levels of epinephrine a hormone that we often call adrenaline, associated with the so-called fight-or-flight response.
We often call a virus a bug.
In military we often call that a strategic withdrawal.
We often call this place an Owner Council.
Arthur Russell's music is alive with invention, playfulness, spontaneity, and what we often call "soul".
The Band, as we often called them, had hits before Pentangle or Fairport Convention.
We often called Hamid Karzai the "big tent" man.
And we often called it 'spaghetti red' because that's what it looks like and 'red' meant some tomato-based sauce was involved.
From The Ask: "It was an expensive and strangely obscure institution, named for its syphilitic Whig founder, but we often called it, with what we considered a certain panache, the Mediocre University at New York City.
What struck me, however, about your suggestion that we embrace "Flagship Universities" is that it seems to me we already have them: Isn't that what, across the United States, we so often call our Land Grant universities?
