coined

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Bill James — the godfather of baseball analytics, who coined the phrase sabermetric in the late 1970s — did not revolutionize the way the sports industry looked at data so we could have more prop bets.

From Los Angeles Times

The term quickly spread beyond the ranks of the police officers who coined it, with “Black Friday” entering the lexicon in the early 1960s.

From Barron's

The phenomenon was first coined as a “bomb” in a 1980 paper that focused on cyclones rapidly, or explosively, developing, according to the Washington Post.

From Los Angeles Times

Those decrees underpin the “Doctrine of Discovery,” a legal concept coined in a 1823 U.S.

From Seattle Times

“It’s what made Silicon Valley,” Carver Mead, the retired California Institute of Technology computer scientist who coined the phrase “Moore’s Law,” told the Associated Press on the law’s 40 anniversary.

From Washington Post