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Somehow Serra upset Sherman Oaks Notre Dame last week, then won a coin flip to finish in third place in the Mission League.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

"It was by chance - a day off. I was walking along the beach with my metal detector on a day off, and I came across a coin," the 69-year-old said.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

When the student is done, De La Cruz hugs her and presents her with an American flag pin and a personalized Monica De La Cruz challenge coin.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

MarketWatch: What should a parent teach a teenager about crypto before the teenager buys their first coin?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

She turned just in time to see the tattered sleeve of the thief emerge from her bag, dirty hand clutching her coin purse.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Slang terms breaking out of the community that coins them isn't unprecedented.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

The coins served as collateral the hackers used to borrow almost 20,000 ether, worth about $44.6 million at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

EBay recorded higher quarterly sales as customers flock to the e-commerce platform to buy items like trading cards, sports memorabilia and coins, according to its chief executive officer, WSJ reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

After it became a hit, Lamar swept up multiple Grammys as if they popped out of the Canadian rapper like coins flying from a “Mario Kart” loser.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

The words that appear on coins are particularly important because they reveal the language that was used at the time they were created.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

California is about to enter the “Becerra era,” though the governor-elect who coined that phrase has dropped few hints about what will define it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Then comes qualification for Euro 2028, coined "the big job" by Pocognoli.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Mike is Westish’s biggest booster—he coined the school motto, “We Are One”—so it’s a problem that Pella feels antsy at the thought of settling permanently in this pokey college town.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Ekerdt pointed me to a 1988 paper by consumer researcher Russell Belk, who coined the term “extended self” to describe this phenomenon.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

For family delicacy, Dad coined two synonyms for going to the bathroom in the woods.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Whatever catches on, one of the few pleasures of today’s alarming geopolitics is the coining of new acronyms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

In 2019, Trump praised the CEO for Apple’s domestic investments, accidentally coining the nickname “Tim Apple” in the process.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

“Our fans’ love for McDonald’s beverages runs deep, from rallying for the return of Hi-C Orange Lavaburst to coining the iconic ‘Spicy Sprite,’” McDonald’s said in a statement to Barron’s.

From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026

"In the past, people in their 40s were seen as already old," says Kim Yong-Sup, a trend analyst widely credited with coining the term "Young 40".

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026

As Ignatius pulled himself angrily up and out of the taxi, he saw his mother coining down the street.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole