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Example sentences for: coinages
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For many, it might be impossible to find evidence for their existence outside the single quotation in the OED or similar source, and they might have been nonce coinages.
The vocabulary is jocular in its easy mixture of the casual (in slang or coinages or abbreviations), the learned (in avatar, baroque, catatonic, synchronous ), the visual (in hieroglyphics or emoticons), and even the aural (in the fondness for explosives, like bang , common spoken name for !) or onomatopoeia ( bletch, glitch, gonk ).
Capital now moves swiftly and freely around the globe--a phenomenon Friedman calls, in one of his catchier coinages, an "electronic herd."
The Second Edition of the Random House Unabridged follows a similar practice, and I find it speculative, spurious, and specious except for the documentation of relatively recent coinages.
All words are coinages, the editors claim, and they resist charting relations between their entries and an “authorized” or canonized list of words.