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The word “blog” is a recent coinage.
Coinage was scarce in the colonies.
an expert in Chinese coinage
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Overall, Roman coinage comes with a variety of portraiture and other imagery, but every image and portrait has a purpose for whoever is deciding what to produce for the general Roman public.
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
As the South Asian community has put down roots over the decades, so have the organizations devoted to creating third places – a coinage by sociologist Ray Oldenburg for the places where people can gather, socialize and bond outside work and school.
—Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025
It was presumably dropped into the federal melting pot to become the first but unacknowledged coinage of California gold.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
The bottom line is, printing paper money or minting token coinage is easy profitable technology, but you are just not allowed to do it; that is the direction of travel at present.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
As the South Asian community has put down roots over the decades, so have the organizations devoted to creating third places – a coinage by sociologist Ray Oldenburg for the places where people can gather, socialize and bond outside work and school.
—Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025
It was presumably dropped into the federal melting pot to become the first but unacknowledged coinage of California gold.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
The bottom line is, printing paper money or minting token coinage is easy profitable technology, but you are just not allowed to do it; that is the direction of travel at present.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Coinage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coinage. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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coinage
noun
coin·age
ˈkȯi-nij 
1
: the act or process of coining
3
: something (as a word) made up or invented
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