coiner

Example Sentences

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On the occasion of an upcoming anniversary series at the Academy Museum, we caught up with film scholar B. Ruby Rich, coiner of the term “New Queer Cinema.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2024

They, in turn, were introduced by a series of endorsers including Greenwood City Councilwoman Edith Childs, the famous coiner of the Obama campaign’s “Fired up! Ready to go!” call-and-response.

From Slate • Feb. 29, 2020

But for the visiting team that gives it up, it is an especially horrible moment, even when its coiner was on the mound.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2017

After the war, President Grover Cleveland appointed him coiner at the U.S.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2016

He at least is no dreamer, no coiner of moods.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck