Example sentences for: coined

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

  • Krugman's column will henceforth be known as "The Dismal Science," a phrase too famous to be ownable by anyone, except possibly British essayist Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), who coined it.

  • Beale can scarcely be held accountable for Barnhart's scholarship, but I can say that I personally know the term to have been used in the early 1950s, and I did not then get the impression that it had been coined for my benefit.

  • The editors of the Baffler , a little magazine of cultural criticism, have coined an extremely handy term to describe the spirit of stores like Restoration Hardware and Trader Joe's: "Commodify your dissent."

  • It is my belief that those who originally coined the terms analog and digital watch intended only to describe the display, not the underlying physics or any relationship to computers.

  • One possibility is etymonym (pronounced ehTYM-o-nym), using the coined combining form etymo- (from the Greek etymon meaning the true meaning of a word, which derives from etymos meaning true or real).


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