as in innovations
something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination
this latest coinage from the minds who gave us the MP3 player
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Recent Examples of coinages
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
There were a few coinages in the script, but 90 percent of the language is real.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
There were a few coinages in the script, but 90 percent of the language is real.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coinages
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Franco-Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc, whose innovations in kinetic and Op art presaged the interactive art of today, died in Paris on May 30.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
8 June 2026
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Who knew that one of the greatest innovations was right here, sitting under our noses in midtown this whole time?—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
8 June 2026
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With telegraph machines and telephones from the 1800s, inventions from Thomas Edison’s company, 20th-century TVs and computers and more, the museum covers how technology in media evolved.—
Zuri Primos
June 3,
Kansas City Star,
3 June 2026
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The Lumen cocktail bar, meanwhile, has an exceptional cocktail menu that runs the gamut from beloved Italian classics to off-the-wall inventions.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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“Coinages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coinages. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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