coiner

• “In place of a coiner was a slender man holding a pomander before his prominent nose.”

  Conan The Invincible

• “But it admits of the employment of one person, both as engraver and chief coiner; this we expect may be done, as we presume that any engraver who has been used to work for a coinage, must be well enough acquainted with all the operations of coinage to direct them; and it is an economy worth attention, if we can have the services performed by one officer instead of two, in which case, it is proposed to give him the salary of the chief coiner, that is to say, fifteen hundred dollars”

  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3

• “Although O’Sullivan is better known as the coiner of "manifest destiny" and, among Hawthorne scholars, as the editor of Democratic Review under whose "glorious reign" a large portion of”

  'An Anti-Democratic Habit of Feeling': Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Toryism in O'Sullivan's Democratic Review

• “That the U.S. Government be the sole "coiner" of money and that it simply issue Greenbacks as needed to make the economy flourish, and to pay for public projects.”

  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

• “Goldman Sachs has singled Nigeria out as the only sub-Saharan African country on its "Next 11" fund, and Goldman Sachs' Jim O'Neill, coiner of the term BRIC, has touted Nigeria as the African country to watch.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Violence Presages Nigeria Poll

• “Her daughter, coiner of the phrase “I want to go to there,” apparently wants to go as a bacon-eating robot for Halloween, which is completely genius.”

  Tina Fey on Letterman: Cute, but not '30 Rock' | EW.com

• “She is, of course, Miss Paris Hilton – heiress, celebutante, DUI star, and coiner of mid-noughties hipster catchphrase "that's hot".”

  The Guardian: When Paris Hilton met Nancy Reagan

• “But nowadays, we're much more conscious that English wasn't necessarily the coiner of these scientific terms.”

  A Back-Story to The Man Who Loved China A Coincidence Most Curious and Telling

• “I am familiar with UMW because it's the home of Jim Groom, coiner of the term "Edupunk," and originator of UMW Blogs, an open-source publishing platform for professors and students.”

  The Huffington Post: Anya Kamenetz: Students in Virginia Rally to Fight 25% Tuition Increases

• “But Brown uses factoids in precisely the way coiner Norman Mailer intended: small, interesting, but completely made-up bullshit designed to look as if it were true.”

  Archive 2009-09-01

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