coined

Definition of coinednext
past tense of coin

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coined
Verb
  • Mexicali stakes a claim to the clamato cocktail, a heady blend of vodka, clam juice and other ingredients invented in the 1960s by a bartender at the city’s Acueducto Piano Bar.
    Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Not the general kinds of graphs that the team was studying, but a special type of graph invented in 1878 by the mathematician Arthur Cayley.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Analysts believe the purges are designed both to reform the military and to ensure loyalty to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who also chairs the military commission.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Syria has become proof, for many, that official language is designed to obscure rather than explain.
    Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • New uses are continually being devised.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • With no worthy opponents left, Baki and the underground fighters grow restless — until a plan is devised to resurrect Miyamoto Musashi, Japan’s greatest swordsman.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Aquazzura’s signature logo detail — a golden pineapple motif — was stamped onto the shoe’s sole.
    Kelsey Stewart, Footwear News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Senior guard Kiki Rice even stamped her impact on the game with 12 second-half points after scoring just two points in the first half.
    Benjamin Royer, Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Freckles, known for his white coat sprinkled with black spots, was hatched at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2006 and had been at the San Francisco Zoo for most of his life.
    Tim Fang, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • After the eggs hatched, males left the nest site and soon reappeared in the observation area for the next reproductive cycle.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • These three apparently disconnected facts exploded in my head and, after a lot of research, formed the narrative engine of The Grave Tattoo, a contemporary thriller with its roots firmly in the tail end of the eighteenth century.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Saman, who asked ABC News not to use his full name for fear of his safety, was in Rasht -- the largest city on Iran's Caspian Sea coast -- when the major protests formed.
    Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 27 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Prosecutors say Brendan Banfield concocted an elaborate scheme to kill his wife, Christine Banfield, and another man, Joseph Ryan, in their family home in February 2023.
    Lauren del Valle, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But for his first contribution to the network in 2026, The Beauty, he and co-creator Matthew Hodgson have concocted a genre-hopping oddity that sounds even less likely to work.
    Judy Berman, Time, 21 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The political and economic geography of the copperbelt, the mining zone that snakes under Katanga and northern Zambia, has been fashioned by external forces and outside greed since at least the time of Belgian colonization.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The Grammelot, for example, was fashioned like an African cave painting and oriental handwriting.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 22 Jan. 2026
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“Coined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coined. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.

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