as in money
something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
seeking a job that pays plenty of coin
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Recent Examples of coin
IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2025
That nickname was coined back in the 1840s, during the California gold rush, due to its arid climate and high temperatures.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2025
The parking kiosks the city plans to use will take credit cards and coins, but no paper money.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The phrase was coined in 1995 as part of a graph that Gartner analyst Jackie Fenn used to illustrate how inflated expectations can lead to a period of disillusionment.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2025
That nickname was coined back in the 1840s, during the California gold rush, due to its arid climate and high temperatures.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
So even if your wish doesn’t come true, your coin will serve a good cause.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2025
The parking kiosks the city plans to use will take credit cards and coins, but no paper money.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coin
Noun
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Corporations love money more than anything, & this will really harm them and force them to do the right thing.—
Amanda Castro
Shane Croucher
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Biglari’s core demands were to stop opening new stores entirely, eliminate the development team to save money, and focus exclusively on improving existing store operations rather than expansion.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The farmer's innovation exemplifies prosocial AI; systems that are tailored, trained, tested and targeted to bring out the best in and for people and planet; technology that is designed to strengthen rather than extract from social fabric.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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This set includes six hangers, each designed with five holes that can hold five garments both horizontally (up to 6 pounds) and vertically (up to 8 pounds).—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
16 Sep. 2025
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To date, the three Mortal Kombat movies from New Line have minted $257.8M around the globe.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
29 Aug. 2025
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Plus, the process could help the Democrats mint new national politicians out of mayors.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
26 Aug. 2025
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The prize, granted by the Culture Ministry’s Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), carries a cash award of €30,000 ($35,100).—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
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Organize liquidity needs Even your cash needs should be thoughtfully allocated and not all lumped into one savings account or money market fund.—
Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
20 Sep. 2025
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The process could hatch relatives of the dodo, setting the stage to bring back the dodo itself.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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The Spiders Have Grown Up Lots of spiders hatched early in the year and spent the summer growing up.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
19 Sep. 2025
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The first step of doing that would be creating a unique conversation ID at the first touch and stamping it on every chat, call, portal click and email.—
Tayfun Bilsel,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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While 10 teams across South America, Asia, Oceania have already joined hosts Canada, Mexico and the United States in stamping their ticket to next June’s tournament, everything is still to play for in European qualifying.—
Jack Bantock,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Chinese yuan's recent rally against the greenback may still have room to run as Beijing guides the currency higher and is seen as favoring holding off on the next rate cut.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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Visa, for example, supports USDC, EuroC, USDG and PYUSD as settlement currencies on its network across four different blockchains, seven days a week.—
Aaron Stanley,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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These are not fantasies drummed up by the Left despite claims from Paxton and his most ardent supporters.—
Kimberly Ross,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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From the get-go, that was an effort on our part to drum up interest.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Coin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coin. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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