coined
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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
I’m not entirely convinced that the term genocide, coined in 1944, properly applies to more than one crime in history, the Holocaust, but Myanmar’s campaign against the Rohingyas might qualify to a reasonable person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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
The term supernova was coined in the 1930s by a memorably odd astrophysicist named Fritz Zwicky.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
