coinage
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Men are now joining women in obsessing over trimester zero, a coinage referring to the months leading up to conception.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
The coinage is a nod to Brünnhilde, a soprano role stereotypically portrayed as a robust figure in a horned helmet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
It was presumably dropped into the federal melting pot to become the first but unacknowledged coinage of California gold.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025
“Film noir” is a French coinage but France’s homegrown crime movies, a staple of the 1950s and early ’60s, seldom get their due in the United States, however first-rate they might be.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2024
Hence the effect on society is catastrophic when state government collapses, as happened in Britain upon the removal of Roman troops, administrators, and coinage between A.D.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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