coining

present participle of coin

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coining
Verb
  • This geometric architecture may even explain how complex organisms evolved so rapidly — not by inventing new genes, but by rearranging the ways existing ones are used.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2025
  • But truths go ignored, the film argues, when everyone prefers inventing realities for themselves.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Using fractional diffusion theory, the research deepens understanding of transient charging behaviors in complex materials, which is key to designing high-performance components used for advanced engineering electrochemical systems in general.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when there were not enough ventilators for the patients who needed them, a team at NASA JPL was charged with designing a ventilator that could be rapidly produced without taking parts away from the critical medical supply chain.
    Michele Raphael, USA Today, 24 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
  • Yet, after its ratification in 1870, Southern states set about trying to circumvent the amendment's intent by devising new ways to shape, control, and limit voting.
    Time, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • 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
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
  • Starting pitchers have to face the same batters two or three times, forming a game plan to keep hitters guessing and then executing it.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Georgia really is forming an identity on offense.
    Seth Emerson, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • China has also been concocting a pretext for action.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • 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
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