coining

The Georgia Birds and the Michigan Felines play a game where they flip a fair coin 101 times.

They flipped a coin to see which of them had first possession, and whoever made the first basket won the game.

If you flip a coin four times, there’s a 6% chance it will come up heads every time—unlikely, but it happens.

So instead you toss two identical coins — the “replicas” — and note how often they land on the same side.

A normal coin lands with heads facing up half the time, tails facing up half the time — almost never on its side.

Pele, by the way, is often given credit for coining the phrase O Jogo Bonito—the Beautiful Game.

But time will remember him most vividly for coining the term “sack,” as in “sacking the quarterback,” which he did a lot.

According to Emily Hauser, our coining of the phrase “Jew-washing” was disingenuous and part of a nefarious “McCarthy-esque” plot.

You will stand aloof like a second Aurelius, coining austere aphorisms and mocking the weakness of your unlearned fellows.

He was suspected of coining false money, but Dr. Dee declares he was innocent.

Manufacturers of emblems are coining money by the sale of hands, palm outstretched.

It had done very well, it had run three months, but they were by no means coining money with it.

The 11th section authorizes the coining of the three cent coin, probably to facilitate the payment of these rates.