coin
noun
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
are coining
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present progressiveof coin.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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But she offered this backhanded praise: Americans, she wrote, “are doing what the Elizabethans did—they are coining new words.”
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
At the moment, four separate NT productions are coining in the cash in the West End while This House and the Alan Bennett series play to packed houses at the National itself.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2013
Now industrial designers are coining terms like "blobjects," "commodity chic" and "cutensils" by creating items to match.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are coining at the Mint a medal, called the medal of the 2nd of December, in honour of the manner in which he keeps his oaths.
From Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo
You see just now our hotel-keepers are coining gold, and they do not like this very pleasant occupation of theirs interrupted, for even the best of reasons.
From The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes
