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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

“Making a phone call the old way fits in with that, just hearing the way the line hums before putting a coin in.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

"Here," he said nervously, holding up the coin.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

Digital coins slid after cryptocurrency exchange Binance said it had suffered the largest heist in crypto history, with hackers making off with assets worth $6.3 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Crypto is a type of digital asset which does not exist physically like cash or coins.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

Some ancient redesigning of the house had left a crawl space in that corner and we’d been secreting jewelry, silver coins, and other valuables there since the start of the occupation.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

He hearkened back to the idea of “bond vigilantes,” a famous term coined by economist Ed Yardeni to describe investors who shun debt until yields rise and they get paid more.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

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

O’Dell chimed, and so coined our new term for the propellant.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

The Canadian psychoanalyst and management consultant Elliott Jaques is often credited with coining the term “midlife crisis” in 1965.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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

He was someone who took time to get to know the fans and the area, coining the phrase 'first the points, then the pints', and the club is unlikely to have that again.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025

In 1909, Johannsen, coining the word gene, had declared it “free of any hypothesis.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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