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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coining
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Yet, bizarrely, the TV show undercuts this angle by inventing a serial killer nurse from whole cloth, a move that shifts the blame away from systemic forces and toward a motiveless scoundrel.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025 -
Despite his resistance to participating in yet another documentary—and the show’s underuse of him, in what is either a callback to The Office or a failure to learn from its mistakes—Oscar ends up inventing number games.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
3 Sep. 2025
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The findings even suggest that modest design modifications can yield substantial benefits, offering engineers flexibility in designing future reactors by balancing performance with engineering complexity.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Sep. 2025
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Tom Hammock, along with key cast and crew, delves into the intricacies of designing the terror that grips this unsuspecting community.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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More on the nanoimprint lithography (NIL) Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is like stamping patterns onto a film, but at a microscopic level.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Sep. 2025
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New Zealand, then known as the Gal Blacks, had been granted permission from Maori elders to perform the haka, the ceremonial war dance that features chanting, stamping and facial gestures such as pukana (bulging eyes) and whetero (sticking out the tongue).—
Peter Carline,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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Bob-Waksberg and his collaborators retain their impressive gift for devising ludicrous comic set pieces to go alongside the heavier material.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
22 Aug. 2025
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Butorac has spent much of the past year quizzing, cajoling and nudging those stars, ultimately devising a format geared to their needs.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
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Despite the inherent pressure of fashioning a collection that will receive intense scrutiny, Jacobs seems far less angst-ridden than Isaac Mizrahi in Unzipped, who nearly came to pieces on screen during the making of his fall 1994 collection.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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Lately, novelists have put a political spin on the idea, counterposing hopeful acts of individual self-fashioning to the immovable weight of circumstance.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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Or can incubate one to the point of hatching?—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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After hatching, the larvae eat the living flesh.—
Dave Wessner,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Pull the cable towards your face with your elbows high and aligned with your ears, forming a 90-degree angle.—
Jakob Roze,
Health,
8 Sep. 2025
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One study uses a new astrophysical computer simulation that models turbulence within the cloud, causing fragmentation into smaller, star-forming clumps.—
Luke Keller,
Space.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Not only is the kitchen fully on display but a separate alcove is given over to his highly technical lab, a play space dedicated to fermentation, aging, preserving and otherwise concocting.—
Ann Abel,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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That isn't stopping Andy Bailey of Bleacher Report from concocting a massive trade proposal that would send the nine-time All-Star to the New York Knicks.—
Ricardo Klein,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Aug. 2025
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