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MarketWatch: What should a parent teach a teenager about crypto before the teenager buys their first coin?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
The Australian jumping spider Portia fimbriata is only about the size of a one-euro coin when fully grown, but its hunting abilities make it particularly interesting to scientists.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
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
From 2017 to 2024, the team that won the coin toss won 60% of the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Masterji Thakur inserted a special coin into the elevator and the doors shut.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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
They said they paid $2,146,958.22 for gold coins worth roughly $1,360,925.00, “without any notion that in a matter of just two weeks” their retirement accounts had been sapped of more than $780,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
McNeil said exchange-traded funds will likely focus on established crypto assets rather than more esoteric options like meme coins.
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
The twenty-eight tons of coins were of immense value, and so, too, were the over one thousand rosewood logs that filled a large part of the trading vessel’s hold.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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There have been no reports of any successful exploits of the flaw, coined php2shell, so far.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 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
It was a field so new that the word had only just been coined, and it was a good match for William’s talents.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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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
Mr. Ashton, a tech figure known for coining the phrase “the Internet of Things,” seems to regard himself as something of a progressive visionary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
Much of the deadpan dialogue was improvised and the film became a cult classic, coining phrases such as "turn it up to eleven".
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025
There was a coining and going round the pile of seeds.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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