Examples of coinage in a Sentence
The word “blog” is a recent coinage.
Coinage was scarce in the colonies.
an expert in Chinese coinage
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From the July/August 2014 issue: The power of two
McCartney and John Lennon were mesmerized by these nonsensical yet lyrical coinages.
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Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
No need for foolishly wasting precious coinage on chicken scratching.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
The Treasurer serves as the custodian and trustee of the federal government's collateral assets and the supervisor of the department's currency and coinage production functions.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
More than 70 years before the coinage of the term, W.E.B. DuBois anticipated Afrofuturism with his 1920 short story The Comet.
—Shantay Robinson, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
No need for foolishly wasting precious coinage on chicken scratching.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
The Treasurer serves as the custodian and trustee of the federal government's collateral assets and the supervisor of the department's currency and coinage production functions.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
More than 70 years before the coinage of the term, W.E.B. DuBois anticipated Afrofuturism with his 1920 short story The Comet.
—Shantay Robinson, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Coinage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coinage. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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coinage
noun
coin·age
ˈkȯi-nij 
1
: the act or process of coining
3
: something (as a word) made up or invented
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