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coin

[koin] / kɔɪn /




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Arduous tests loom during the second half of the season, however, making the chances of getting the nod from the CFP selection committee a coin flip at best.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

In 16 of those, the winner of the coin toss has chosen to kick.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

A small nodule is called a "coin lesion" because on X-rays it looks like a coin, Professor Federico Venuta, head of thoracic surgery at the Policlinico Umberto 1 hospital in Rome, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Yaacov Katz says the legacy of 7 October is a coin with two sides.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

If only I could tell her about the coin and Anna Donnelly.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

According to the lawsuit, filed in May, Rosland Capital and Von Detten persuaded the couple to invest more than $2 million of their retirement savings in gold coins worth only $1.3 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Q: How do providers navigate some of those ‘Wild West’ coins in their products?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The puffin and bees also feature on coins, as part of the Royal Mint's redesigned 20p and £1 coins respectively.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Mint stopped manufacturing the one-cent coins, drawing hundreds of Honest Abe and Mary Todd impersonators.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

Hurriedly, fumbling, she put the coins into it.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

And it said the flaws - now coined "php2shell" - were inherent in the language itself, affecting many past versions of it.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

The term “ultraprocessed foods” was coined by nutritional epidemiologist Carlos Monteiro and his team at the University of São Paulo in the early 2000s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 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

No one seems to know who coined the term, but the label wasn’t what mattered; it was the idea that the military was hiding a device that could fix everything wrong with you.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

And when Boyle coined the phrase experimentum crucis to honour the Puy-de-Dôme experiment he was marking the beginning of a new era in which philosophical disputes would be resolved by experimentation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

“You’re starting to see it broaden out,” said Michael Hartnett, the Bank of America strategist who is credited with coining the Magnificent Seven moniker back in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026

He was someone who took time to get to know the fans and the area, coining the phrase 'first the points, then the pints', and the club is unlikely to have that again.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025

Miig was considering coining but, at the last minute, decided to stay back.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline


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