coin
noun
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
had coined
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past perfectof coin.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He studied under the founder of quantum mechanics, Niels Bohr, and Bohr had coined the term “complementarity” to describe the uncanny experimental results that quantum physics produced.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 16, 2023
Burke, 49, had coined “Me Too” as part of her advocacy work more than a decade before a hashtagged tweet from actor Alyssa Milano, in the wake of the Weinstein allegations, saw the phrase explode.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
John McCarthy, a computer scientist who had coined the term “artificial intelligence,” established the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory with the goal of creating a “thinking machine” in a decade.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2020
The professor had coined a new phrase, “the Gulfication of the Arabs”, which was becoming popular among the ruling elite in Abu Dhabi.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 21, 2018
Herbert Spencer—the philosopher who had coined the phrase survival of the fittest—had spent much of his life bedridden with various illnesses, struggling with his own fitness for survival.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
