Examples of coinage in a Sentence
The word “blog” is a recent coinage.
Coinage was scarce in the colonies.
an expert in Chinese coinage
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Lydians are widely recognized as the inventors of coinage, helping to make their capital, Sardis, synonymous with fabulous wealth in the ancient Mediterranean.
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Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
26 June 2026
The author, a professor named Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, proved to have a knack not just for provocative legal essays but for coinages, too.
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Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
People have been called pedants since the early modern period—pedante is a fifteenth-century Italian coinage for a professional teacher of Latin literature and rhetoric—but have been acting pedantically for millennia.
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Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
Propagandi, in other words, isn’t just a clever coinage.
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Tim Requarth,
Longreads,
9 Apr. 2026
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Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
26 June 2026
The author, a professor named Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, proved to have a knack not just for provocative legal essays but for coinages, too.
—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
People have been called pedants since the early modern period—pedante is a fifteenth-century Italian coinage for a professional teacher of Latin literature and rhetoric—but have been acting pedantically for millennia.
—
Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
Propagandi, in other words, isn’t just a clever coinage.
—
Tim Requarth,
Longreads,
9 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for coinage
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“Coinage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coinage. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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coinage
noun
coin·age
ˈkȯi-nij 
1
: the act or process of coining
3
: something (as a word) made up or invented
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