Example sentences for: coined

How can you use “coined” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nucleoplasmin is the most abundant protein in the Xenopus oocyte nucleus and is the protein for which the term molecular chaperone was coined due to its multiple roles in the assembly of nucleosomes during early frog development [ 1 ] . Nucleoplasmin forms a pentamer and its stretches of acidic residues bind to histone H2A and H2B.

  • When Carroll coined the word borogoves he gave it only one r, but somehow a few editors gave it a second r, as in borogroves.

  • Several readers suggested the addition of that '70s hit, zipless fuck an act of intercourse without an emotional connection, coined by Erica Jong in Fear of Flying . We had originally decided to omit it since zipless was often used on its own to mean passionate but emotionally uninvolved, but it does appear often enough as a set phrase to deserve entry.

  • "Risky tax scheme" was coined in 1996 to refer to Bob Dole's proposed 15 percent tax cut.

  • During the Watergate scandal President Nixon had to face an even more powerful combination, one that incorporated his own nickname in a double that ended with the negative diminutive - y . Whoever coined the term tricky-dicky must have sensed that the combination would hit hard.


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