coined

[koind] / kɔɪnd /

VERB

create, invent

Synonyms

STRONG

brainstorm compose conceive contrive counterfeit fabricate forge formulate frame manufacture mint mold originate spark spitball stamp strike

WEAK

dream up head trip make up make up off the top of one's head think up trump up

Antonyms

STRONG

demolish destroy ruin stop wreck

Example Sentences

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“These are the companies that you cannot type something in a prompt and disrupt,” said Josh Brown, chief executive at Ritholtz Wealth Management, who coined the term “HALO” earlier this month.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Manifest Destiny gets coined as a term, and you had this nationalist, expansionist mindset.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Researchers analyzed scans from more than 4,200 people from infancy to 90 years old and found several key periods of development including one from age nine to 32, which they coined the “adolescent” period.

From Science Daily

This sounds like a financial version of “FOG,” an acronym coined by author and psychologist Dr. Susan Forward — “fear, obligation and guilt.”

From MarketWatch

Jukeboxes were central to the swing-music youth culture of the 1930s, a period when the term “teenager” was coined.

From The Wall Street Journal