coining

present participle of coin

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coining
Verb
  • He is attributed with inventing Irish coffee.
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The team successfully solved a long-standing challenge by inventing a way to create a durable protective layer on fully inorganic perovskite solar cells.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This includes prevention and preparedness – conducting risk assessments to confirm key areas of crisis risk, designing and conducting practical tabletop scenario exercises to practice response to key risks, and putting in place critical incident response protocols.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The efficiency boost came from designing the rotors to be hollow instead of filled with foam, as is the case with most wind turbine blades.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Warning signs a skunk is ready to spray include jumping, stamping their front feet, arching their back, clicking teeth, and hissing.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Aniyah wrote, stamping it with several heart emojis.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For 39 years, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has required redistricting institutions to consider racial and ethnic minority representation when devising congressional districts.
    Sam D. Hayes, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The problem in devising such a tax is defining what constitutes a robot.
    Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But Judge Subramanian said today he is still allowed to consider the evidence when fashioning the sentence.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • His newest installment centers on Hunnam as Gein, the infamous serial killer known for fashioning human body parts as furniture and clothing.
    Madeleine Janz, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For example, fever baby turtles in Raine Island, Australia are hatching.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The two theories triggered widespread alarm in the comment section, with viewers imagining what might be hatching above the woman's hotel bed.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The pair played together in the band Malachi Sage before forming their long-running nu-metal group in 1994.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Each junction behaves slightly differently, forming a complex 3D network that is impossible to exactly replicate.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But in the late 1800s, food companies began concocting products that were wildly different from anything people could make themselves.
    Alice Callahan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Orbán has long sought to consolidate his power through concocting scapegoats for Hungary’s ills.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Coining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coining. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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