coinage
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brainchild, concoction, contrivance, creation, innovation, invention, wrinkle
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, given its original coinage within the ancient Roman credit systems, solidarity reemerged in eighteenth-century political discourse in conjunction with questions of debt. — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, "One for All," 26 Aug. 2019 Societies had not yet devised coinage; instead, the metal was weighed on a scale to determine its value. — Kristin Baird Rattini, National Geographic, "Meet the worldâs first emperor," 18 June 2019 The British cringed over new American accents, coinages and vulgarisms. — Time, "Americans and Brits Have Been Fighting Over the English Language for Centuries. Hereâs How It Started," 11 June 2019 But last year, Yale Law School librarian Fred Shapiro uncovered an earlier column by Skolsky, written immediately after the 1934 ceremony, that casts doubt on his coinage claim. — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, "How Did the Academy Award Become the âOscarâ?," 22 Feb. 2019 The original series, which ran from 2003 to 2006 on Fox, was a comedy miracle, capturing the oblivious entitlement of the wealthy Bluth family with elaborate farce plots and enough inspired coinages to fill a vault. — New York Times, "Review: âArrested Developmentâ Chases Its Past, Slowly," 28 May 2018 The first contained a small amount of ordinary coinage which symbolizes the monarchâs gift for food and clothing. — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, "Prince Philip Abruptly Cancels Maundy Church Service with the Queen Prompting Health Fears," 29 Mar. 2018 So some of that coinage was made in the 1700s, some of it in the 1600s. — Chris Varias, Cincinnati.com, "Got old or rare coins? Head to Sharonville this weekend," 28 June 2018 Fert, of the University of Paris South, was credited with developing the term giant magnetoresistance, a coinage that recognized how much more powerful an effect the layer technique had on currents. — Martin Weil, Washington Post, "Peter Gruenberg, Nobel-winning scientist who advanced computer technology, dies at 78," 10 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'coinage.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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