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Example Sentences
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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.
"There was just crisis on every front… it's classic glass cliff," says Michelle Ryan, Director of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership and one of the researchers who coined the term.
From BBC
“Korea has become a country people aspire to experience, it’s not just ‘Hallyu’ anymore,” he said, referring to a term coined to describe the Korean culture wave.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
