coiner
Example Sentences
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One imagines the subject himself — the “Me decade” coiner with the “Me” career — wondering why there isn’t more Wolfe in “Radical Wolfe.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2023
They, in turn, were introduced by a series of endorsers including Greenwood City Councilwoman Edith Childs, the famous coiner of the Obama campaign’s “Fired up! Ready to go!” call-and-response.
From Slate ● Feb. 29, 2020
Retta, a comedian best known as Donna Meagle, the assured office manager and coiner of the phrase ‘Treat yo self” on “Parks and Recreation,” has a dramatic role.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2018
Instead, he was quoting a man named John O'Sullivan — also the coiner of the term "Manifest Destiny" — who used it in the first 1837 issue of United States Magazine and Democratic Review.
From Time ● Sep. 22, 2017
He at least is no dreamer, no coiner of moods.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
