minted
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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If you won $100 million — a life-changing sum — $5 million or $10 million could change her life and would not alter yours in any meaningful way as a newly minted multimillionaire.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
And with this description of parts of the Home Office in 2006, the then-Home Secretary John Reid minted a phrase that has lodged in the lexicon of British politics.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
And this year he will have a commemorative coin bearing his image, minted to mark America's 250th birthday.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
During the Iran hostage crisis, William Daugherty, a newly minted case officer in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, was kept there, in a 4-foot-wide cell lit 24 hours by a dim, dangling bulb.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
“And nowhere have those traits been more apparent than in our three young witches, and newly minted Spare coven.”
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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