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Both seasoned lexicographers, they realized that Americans were coining new words, using old ones in new ways and preserving usages the British had dropped.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2019

Little tiny hairs were coining out of his face.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis

In any case, their meaning mattered little as long as the letter arrived, telling her aunt that Papá had been killed at sea and her niece and nephew were coining to Indio to find her.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

The English wanted beasts for a war, and the farmers about here were coining money out of horseflesh.

From Humours of Irish Life by Various

The writer had boldly accused him of being the hired tool of the group of financial cut-throats who were coining millions out of the ruin of others in the destruction of public faith.

From The Root of Evil by Dixon, Thomas