coiner

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On the occasion of an upcoming anniversary series at the Academy Museum, we caught up with film scholar B. Ruby Rich, coiner of the term “New Queer Cinema.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2024

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

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

After the war, President Grover Cleveland appointed him coiner at the U.S.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2016

His fastball would come down and in on the inside coiner.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson