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Arduous tests loom during the second half of the season, however, making the chances of getting the nod from the CFP selection committee a coin flip at best.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

As the referee’s coin landed on tails before overtime, he mimicked a kicking motion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

A small nodule is called a "coin lesion" because on X-rays it looks like a coin, Professor Federico Venuta, head of Thoracic Surgery at the Policlinico Umberto 1 hospital in Rome, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Yaacov Katz says the legacy of 7 October is a coin with two sides.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

A coin that hadn’t even had a wish to it.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

And you couldn’t invest in it—you could buy coins and bars, or mining stocks—but that was the only way you could do it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The puffin and bees also feature on coins, as part of the Royal Mint's redesigned 20p and £1 coins respectively.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Mint stopped manufacturing the one-cent coins, drawing hundreds of Honest Abe and Mary Todd impersonators.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

Hasler compared that coin with other Roman coins from the same period and concluded that it was probably minted before September.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Brigit scattered coins on the table, yelling at them in hopes that they'd work.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Ekerdt pointed me to a 1988 paper by consumer researcher Russell Belk, who coined the term “extended self” to describe this phenomenon.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

It was a mantra coined by the tech giant Meta and used until 2012, which came to define the bad old days of social media running riot in a feeding frenzy of user data.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

No one seems to know who coined the term, but the label wasn’t what mattered; it was the idea that the military was hiding a device that could fix everything wrong with you.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Winthrop coined the term “cognitive stunting” to describe this effect on children.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

“My Patron Historic was a great woman. She coined the term ‘radioactivity,’ and was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, back when such things were awarded.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

In 2019, Trump praised the CEO for Apple’s domestic investments, accidentally coining the nickname “Tim Apple” in the process.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

“Our fans’ love for McDonald’s beverages runs deep, from rallying for the return of Hi-C Orange Lavaburst to coining the iconic ‘Spicy Sprite,’” McDonald’s said in a statement to Barron’s.

From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026

“You’re starting to see it broaden out,” said Michael Hartnett, the Bank of America strategist who is credited with coining the Magnificent Seven moniker back in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026

"In the past, people in their 40s were seen as already old," says Kim Yong-Sup, a trend analyst widely credited with coining the term "Young 40".

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026

In any case, their meaning mattered little as long as the letter arrived, telling her aunt that Papá had been killed at sea and her niece and nephew were coining to Indio to find her.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty