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coiner



NOUN
forger
Synonyms
STRONGEST




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On the occasion of an upcoming anniversary series at the Academy Museum, we caught up with film scholar B. Ruby Rich, coiner of the term “New Queer Cinema.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2024

They, in turn, were introduced by a series of endorsers including Greenwood City Councilwoman Edith Childs, the famous coiner of the Obama campaign’s “Fired up! Ready to go!” call-and-response.

From Slate Feb. 29, 2020

Retta, a comedian best known as Donna Meagle, the assured office manager and coiner of the phrase ‘Treat yo self” on “Parks and Recreation,” has a dramatic role.

From New York Times Feb. 23, 2018

Instead, he was quoting a man named John O'Sullivan — also the coiner of the term "Manifest Destiny" — who used it in the first 1837 issue of United States Magazine and Democratic Review.

From Time Sep. 22, 2017

His fastball would come down and in on the inside coiner.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson




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