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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coined
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Oftebro, who ran away with gold in the normal and large hill individual events, teamed up with Andreas Skoglund to capture a third medal for the country that invented the sport.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Feb. 2026 -
This way to pass the time dates back to the 1880s, just a few years after the phone was invented, and started with an undertaker, of all people, getting called to fetch the dead body of a not-so-dead woman.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
17 Feb. 2026
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The European Space Agency telescope is designed to make a 3D map of the universe by looking at billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light years away across one third of the sky.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2026
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The transfer shell game The problems compound when ICE transfers detainees without notice, a practice attorneys said is a kind of shell game designed to frustrate legal challenges.—
Ben Fenwick,
Oklahoma Watch,
13 Feb. 2026
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Each of the three crime stories — performed in English, German and French — was devised in close cooperation with the actors, who played an integral role in developing their own characters, Bauer notes.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2026
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Organized in a fashion, but loosely so, an outgrowth, in both spirit and practical measure, of the network of express riders devised by Samuel Adams and elevated by Paul Revere.—
Kostya Kennedy,
Time,
16 Feb. 2026
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Both Grondin and everyone else in snowboard cross knows, though, that gold would have stamped his status as the best snowboard cross racer in the world.—
Brendan Quinn,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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That record ended up winning Best Rap Song at the 2026 Grammys, so, yeah, that moment is stamped forever.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Feb. 2026
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The journey of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die was eight years from conception to ultimate big-screen transformation, first hatched by The Invention of Lying co-director and scribe Matthew Robinson as a 26-page TV pilot called Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2026
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Overlooking the white-sand beaches on the Florida Panhandle, Jon Sumrall and Buster Faulkner first hatched their plan to resurrect the Gators.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2026
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Raman previously worked at a women’s rights organization formed in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement before becoming a council member.—
Dakota Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
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The arch was formed by centuries of harsh wind and high seas grinding away at the Calcarenite stone cliffs of Italy’s Puglia region, on the turquoise waters of the Adriatic Sea.—
Barbie Latza Nadeau,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
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Paul Simon, who was headed to retirement amid debilitating hearing loss, has concocted a helpful new stage monitor setup that has him back on the road.—
BRIAN MCCOLLUM,
Freep.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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Galen concocted medicines that seem strange to modern ears, such as treating ailments like inflammation with feces sprinkled with thyme to mask the odor.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Jan. 2026
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The products, developed in partnership with Republic Brands Group, were used to prep models’ skin for the show Thursday, where hair looks were fashioned by hairstylist Lacy Redway using Tresemmé.—
Noor Lobad,
Footwear News,
12 Feb. 2026
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Narges, a general practitioner in her thirties, fashioned a tourniquet from a head scarf to save the woman’s leg from a bullet wound.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Coined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coined. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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