Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coining
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Some unnamed Chicago bartender in the early 1880s had the improbable idea of taking a Whiskey Sour and adding a little red wine to the top, inventing in a bizarre flash of insightone of the great warm weather whiskey drinks of our time.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
10 Jan. 2026 -
For Gen Z, that could mean inventing new career paths, blending skills across disciplines, or building opportunities rather than waiting for traditional ladders to reappear.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
8 Jan. 2026
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Craig had to have his key staff lined up by May 1, some 5,000 library books ordered by July 1, not to mention getting a faculty for 500 students, designing a curriculum, selecting and ordering texts, even down to designing application forms, catalogs, etc.—
Roger Simmons,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Jan. 2026
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Majestic Labs is designing an AI system for inference with 128 terabytes of memory, or about 100 times more memory than some current AI systems, Rabii said, adding that the company plans to eschew HBM memory for lower-cost options.—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
10 Jan. 2026
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More than 1,000 robots work alongside almost 1,500 humans, hoisting, stamping and welding in robotic unison.—
Marc Lieberman,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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Trump stamping his name on buildings is not new.—
Christine Ledbetter,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Jan. 2026
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Companies are actively devising strategies to counteract muscle loss in people taking the drugs.—
Isabella Cueto,
STAT,
29 Dec. 2025
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Sondheim got to work at eight o’clock one night, devising a version of the murder game in which all the players would have to use their wits to untangle the mystery.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
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Consider fashioning a tin foil hat for your mobile phone.—
Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
2 Jan. 2026
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Or all of the above, since automakers have given themselves maximum flexibility on this front, fashioning vehicles that can handle multiple different kinds of powertrains.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
29 Dec. 2025
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Re-hatching Some find the hatching process to be the most enjoyable part of playing with Hatchimals.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, the adults are hatching their own plan to find and defeat the monstrous force.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
14 Dec. 2025
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These atoms scatter ultraviolet sunlight, forming a faint halo around Earth.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Jan. 2026
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The trio of enterprising young musicians decided to cast their fortunes together by forming a band which, after enlisting Cameron Picton (another BRIT classmate) on a range of instruments from bass guitar to flute, became Black Midi.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Jan. 2026
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So is facing a deluge of division title-winners who spent the offseason concocting new ways to beat them.—
Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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Notably, the computers seem to have a knack for concocting bizarre physics experiments — designs that humans wouldn’t think of, which nevertheless work.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Dec. 2025
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“Coining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coining. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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