COINING Synonyms: 67 Similar and Opposite Words

coining

verb

present participle of coin

as in inventing

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as in minting

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Reference Existing Guides Figuring out how to make a workplace menopause-friendly doesn’t require re-inventing the wheel.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 21 Oct. 2026
But extracting rents is much easier than inventing new things.

— NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of inventing

Verb

When Louise would remember the show decades later, the audience was always so electric that the room exploded into stamping feet and pounding fists.

— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
All this suggests that stopping illicit distillation will mean finding new attacks before stamping them out.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of stamping

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Those assumptions can be quite uncertain when designing an entirely new study.

— Mark Louie F. Ramos, STAT, 21 Oct. 2026
This year’s homebrew showstopper could see its creator designing a licensed table for one of the industry’s major manufacturers by the following year’s show.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of designing

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The duo and their team of costumers got to work fashioning Skarsgård a bottom half—wood and all.

— Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
Now nobody wants to start fashioning a bust in Canton for Rodriguez already but as fellow linebacker Jordyn Brooks told the Miami Herald, the rookie has the potential to be an amazing player for quite some time.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of fashioning

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With her knack for devising novel solutions to seemingly insoluble problems, no one was better suited for the job.

— Dean Robbins, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2026
Mungiu may have a less sadistic streak and a more active camera, but the two filmmakers share a particular commitment to narrative indeterminacy, devising intricate yet incomplete crime-story plots that function broadly as sociopolitical allegories.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of devising

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Agent 12, for example, spent most of its time forming shapes such as a compass or a clock, and figures such as a butterfly or a sailboat.

— Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026
For a black artist like myself, forming and writing songs for a boy band is a form of code ditching, a way of seizing aesthetics and timbres that have been unduly withheld from my predecessors.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of forming

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This summer, a mosquito control company based in Silver Spring, Maryland, began introducing flocks of infertile male mosquitos in residential communities to prevent eggs from hatching.

— Angie Orellana Hernandez, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2026
While the folklore may be fun to talk about, the width of their bands are determined by hatching conditions, genetics and behavior of a brood, among other things, experts say.

— Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of hatching

Verb

In 2022, the paparazzi leaked photos of the two holding hands, nestled into each other at a New York bar, and Holmes patting Robach on the rear.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
In this case, there’s no swiping or rubbing at all—just let the pads sit and soak in for a few minutes before gently patting in the excess.

— Jenny Jin, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of patting

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