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
Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
The cheap-and-cheerful Miata is a great place to park a little bit of coin to cash in on a lot of fun.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2025
Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Many people equate koala parenting with attachment parenting, which was coined by William Sears, MD, in the 1980s, says Stephanie Edenburgh, CEO of Bizzie Mommy.
—Sherri Gordon, Parents, 18 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Read More | Metal detectorist finds huge coin hoard — at least 1,500 years old — in Romania
In Letca Nouă, Romania, a metal detectorist discovered a hoard of 1,469 ancient Roman silver coins, dating back to the Roman Imperial Period.
—Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
The cheap-and-cheerful Miata is a great place to park a little bit of coin to cash in on a lot of fun.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
Its name was coined by Johndric Valdez, a Filipino teenager who aspires to be an astronomer.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Many people equate koala parenting with attachment parenting, which was coined by William Sears, MD, in the 1980s, says Stephanie Edenburgh, CEO of Bizzie Mommy.
—Sherri Gordon, Parents, 18 Apr. 2025
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Noun
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Medora Lee is a money, markets, and personal finance reporter at USA TODAY.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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The university sets the salary amounts for these positions, and the people filling them − whether faculty, staff or graduate students − have to raise the money to fund their salary.—
Brady Thomas West,
The Conversation,
2 May 2025
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The Inouye Solar Telescope is designed to operate for 44 years, which should cover four of the sun's roughly 11-year solar cycles.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Fox News Digital understands that As Ever, which is supposed to be an extension of Meghan’s past lifestyle blog The Tig, will not be designing clothing.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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The Treasury still mints more than 5 billion coins a year, although the figure is dropping, according to the journal CoinNews.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
4 May 2025
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Many of the coins found were dated between 1808 and 1915, while several were minted during the twenties and thirties, which helped the museum to better determine when the coins may have been placed in the wall.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
3 May 2025
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Since the recent downturn, I have been asked repeatedly about what to do, and whether to sell out and go to cash.—
Jill Schlesinger,
Mercury News,
28 Apr. 2025
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One afternoon, Coogler stopped by a Bank of America to make a sizable cash withdrawal from his account to cover some family expenses.—
Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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The eggs can survive for months or even a year and hatch after one to three days of being submerged in water.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
25 Apr. 2025
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Movies steeped in fantasy and existing or newly hatched folklore can whip up anything and everything, usually digitally, which often erases half of the potential visual magic.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2025
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The image appears to have been doctored, recruited into Trump’s own semiotic sleight of hand—reducing a person to a body part and then stamping that body part with a sign of evil.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2025
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If the mask is stamped with a GB number ending in 2006, it was made based on the previous standard and is still fine to use so long as the expiration date hasn't passed.—
Lisa Wood Shapiro,
Wired News,
18 Apr. 2025
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The Bears traded away a massive amount of draft currency, sending the 49ers a four-pack of picks — Nos. 3, 67 and 111 in that year’s draft plus a 2018 third-rounder — to slide up one peg to No. 2 on the draft board to draft Mitch Trubisky, a quarterback at North Carolina.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2025
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Their faces have appeared on currency, Streets bear their names, children learn about them in school.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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As expected, the news made its rounds on social media and drummed up flashbacks of when the first ordeal went down nearly eight years ago.—
Regina Cho,
VIBE.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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The single could give Wallen his second No. 1 hit from this era right before the complete project arrives, which will only heighten expectations and drum up more excitement for the set.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Coin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coin. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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