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Somehow Serra upset Sherman Oaks Notre Dame last week, then won a coin flip to finish in third place in the Mission League.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

"It was by chance - a day off. I was walking along the beach with my metal detector on a day off, and I came across a coin," the 69-year-old said.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

When the student is done, De La Cruz hugs her and presents her with an American flag pin and a personalized Monica De La Cruz challenge coin.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

MarketWatch: What should a parent teach a teenager about crypto before the teenager buys their first coin?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

He hid it inside the hollow nickel he’d made, put the coin in one of his dead-drop locations, and marked the subway station wall with chalk.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Slang terms breaking out of the community that coins them isn't unprecedented.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

The Finds Liaison Officer will help you get the coins assessed by experts to determine if they meet the legal definition of "treasure" under the Treasure Act 1996, external.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 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

According to the lawsuit, filed in May, Rosland Capital and Von Detten persuaded the couple to invest more than $2 million of their retirement savings in gold coins worth only $1.3 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Skull-covered balloons dropped chocolate Paragon coins, stormy cloud nougats, and spiraling ginger stars.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

And it said the flaws - now coined "php2shell" - were inherent in the language itself, affecting many past versions of it.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Macron coined a slogan for the approach: Quoi qu’il en coûte, or “whatever it costs.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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

It was he who coined the term "Big Bang," in a moment of facetiousness, for a radio broadcast in 1952.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

A “stroad” tries to do both tasks at once, said Charles Marohn, the engineer widely credited with coining the term.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

Ahmed: Well, I was really proud to be part of the conversation, when we were kind of collectively coining that term, right, going from diversity to representation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 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

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

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee