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How can you use “coined” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Anglos coined the word buckaroo, meaning vaquero, because they disliked the word cowboy and did not want to call themselves by that name.
Just think how many words must have been coined by writers whose works are the only ones extant from early periods of the language: people who misuse citation dictionaries must think that Richard Rolle of Hampole, Holinshed, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and a handful of other geniuses sat down one day and invented the English language, making up the words as they went along.
" 'When I cleverly coined the phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism."
The high-five was originally a gesture developed for use in basketball, where it first appeared among the University of Louisville team in the 1979-80 season; Louisville player Derek Smith claims to have coined the name.
To mercy fuck and sport fuck we now add the even less pleasant hate fuck, immortalized as the title of the first album of post-punk band Pussy Galore in 1987 but found in the '70s, and force-fuck, apparently coined because the word rape wasn't shocking enough.
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