coined

past tense of coin

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coined
Verb
  • Dylan, Kelly and Brenda The Dylan, Kelly and Brenda trifecta practically invented the love triangle trope on TV.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The cylindrical steam engine was invented in 1769.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Refugeoly is designed to raise awareness about the challenges refugees face at Europe’s borders.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2025
  • And remember, the point spread is designed to divide the wagers evenly, not be a true indicator of value.
    Jack Magruder, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Originally devised in the mid-1990s by financial adviser Bill Bengen, the rule suggested retirees could safely withdraw 4 percent of their portfolio in the first year of retirement and then continue withdrawing the same amount, adjusted for inflation, each year after.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • That theorem, devised by Stephen Hawking way back in 1971, has profound implications.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For Swifties, that number felt serendipitous with the singer's favorite number, 13, stamped into the record.
    Bryan West, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
  • For Swifties, that number felt serendipitous with the singer's favorite number, 13, stamped into the record.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Directed by genre-hopping Ben Wheatley and written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad from a story hatched by Kolstad and Odenkirk, the subversive Western is a take-no-prisoners gore fest that peppers all the visceral carnage with an equal sprinkling of dry wit.
    Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Two Messor structor males that hatched were hairless, while three Messor ibericus males were covered with hair.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement Advertisement Synthetic dyes are generally made from petroleum and concocted in labs.
    Alice Park, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
  • To solve this problem, materials scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have concocted a new sunscreen recipe that spares the ocean’s vital microorganisms.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The report was researched and written by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which was formed by the Human Right Council in 2021, as an independent investigative body.
    Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In this case, the new, smaller black hole that formed from the collision shot through space at more than 31 miles per second – fast enough to escape its host galaxy and the surrounding globular cluster of stars bound together by gravity.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The students raised money to purchase a garden bed constructed by their school’s geometry and construction class, with the PEAK grant paying for seeds and other garden necessities.
    Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025
  • As the fireline is constructed, inspected or reinforced, mappers record those details to adjust the containment percentage.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Coined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coined. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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