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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Enter the “pantry dump” dinners, as one Redditor coined.

From Salon • May 30, 2026

I was comfortable being called “weekend girl” and had even coined the nickname.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

Law professor Kimberlé W. Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” decades ago.

From Slate • May 5, 2026

It’s the protective sense of a hedge that Alfred Winslow Jones, the former Marxist sociologist who coined the modern term “hedged fund” in 1949, had in mind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

“Chuckie” was a derisive term coined by infantrymen, using the army’s spelling alphabet where a word is assigned to each letter of the alphabet.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge