to coin a phrase

Examples of coined

coined

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

All of these characteristics lead to constant renewal as forms are continually replaced with newly coined expressions that can effectively intensify existing expressions.
Some 6.7 million pesos were coined in 1710, rising to more than 9 million pesos in 1728.
He also coined the word ' de-affectualization ' to refer to ' emotional numbing ', a frequent complaint amongst patients suffering with the condition.
A friend of mine once coined the term "ether-walkers" for this class of person.
Alongside the possibility for public disputation and polemic that the printed sphere offered, such possibilities for individual self-conditioning coined the other face of print.
Since the 1970s when the terms were first coined, they have been plagued by a great deal of imprecision in their usage.
Yet, it is surely better to encapsulate a particular idea in a newly coined or adapted word than continually to restate that idea.
It was originally coined as a negative term, refer ring to the aspects of meaning which cannot be analyzed within the basic area of 'denotation'.
And along with the products were coined new and exotic names.
To date, millions of technical terms have been coined for all disciplines.
Consequently, substituted or newly coined terms may acquire meanings that were not intended by their instigators.
We have coined the phrase 'neurovascular instability' to encompass these autonomic disorders in older adults.
There were several smaller steps along the way, both before and after the term itself was coined.
To the contrary, uncontrolled dissemination of experimental implants, without evidence that more benefit than harm is invoked to patients, can be coined as unethical behavior.
I have coined these hybrid terms simply to echo multiplication where a multiplier operates on a multiplicand.
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