1.   William Shakespeare is believed to have coined many words.

2.   Ben-Yehuda also pioneered the practice of systematically coining Hebrew words.

3.   He coined words with impunity and elevated slang to high art.

4.   It is as though devolution, a word long coined, had suddenly gained currency.

5.   Jelly Roll Morton, the pianist who claims to have invented jazz but probably just coined the word, turned ragtime pieces into swing.

6.   Last year, two famous ecdysiasts, the word Mencken coined for striptease artists, Lili St. Cyr and Ann Corio, died.

7.   Opera was multimedia long before the word was coined.

8.   Some nations, like France and Israel, try to protect the native tongue from invasion by coining words to describe new technical terms.

9.   Sometimes entirely new words are coined.

10.   Survey research executives have now coined words for those difficulties, Ms. Bowers said.