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coin

[koin] / kɔɪn /




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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

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

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

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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