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  • noun Plural form of coiner.

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Examples

  • And drug gangs may have exceeded the ability of word coiners as images spread showing the killers' latest practice: victims whose faces have been skinned and hung on posts or sewn to soccer balls.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • And drug gangs may have exceeded the ability of word coiners as images spread showing the killers' latest practice: victims whose faces have been skinned and hung on posts or sewn to soccer balls.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • KEvron wv = "coiners". i count myself among their ranks.

    Say hello to a whole new level of whiny dumbassitude. CC 2009

  • But today’s word coiners seem unaware that gender-neutral English pronouns have been popping up, then disappearing without much trace, since the mid-nineteenth century

    the quest for a gender neutral pronoun | clusterflock 2010

  • "They are coiners on a large scale, and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the place of silver."

    Sole Music 2010

  • * I have even been called an ‘ultra-Darwinist’, a gibe that I find less insulting than its coiners perhaps intended.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Note the high degree of difficulty demanded of coiners: The wanted word has to apply both to getting wet and to towel-drying.

    Word Fugitives 2007

  • Yet they were also less expensive, since private coiners sold their products at cost plus a modest markup, like other competitive firms, instead of charging the coins 'face value, as governments like to do.

    Argentina Is Short of Cash – Literally George Selgin 2009

  • * I have even been called an ‘ultra-Darwinist’, a gibe that I find less insulting than its coiners perhaps intended.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Note the high degree of difficulty demanded of coiners: The wanted word has to apply both to getting wet and to towel-drying.

    Word Fugitives 2007

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