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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
recoin .
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Examples
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Foundation on February 28, 1952, mention that Professor Franck received his recoined medal at a ceremony at the University of
The Nobel Prize Medals and the Medal for the Prize in Economics 2010
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The 'Kaldar' rupees thus collected are to be sent to Kabul to be recoined.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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The "Buddy Movie" (now recoined as the "Bromance" or "A Judd Apatow") We, the 51 percent of your audience, have only one of these movies to stick a flag in and call our own: "Thelma and Louise."
Ashley Van Buren: An Open Letter From One of Your 51 Percent 2009
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Who could forget the ample-bosomed Julia Roberts in the Pretty Woman poster (evidently that was Julia only from the neck up), or Jennifer Love Hewitt's set in the I Know What You Did Last Summer poster (so giganto the film's title was recoined by fans as "I Know What Your Boobs Did Last Summer"), to the suddenly chesty Gwyneth Paltrow in the poster for Shallow Hal?
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Coleridge had recoined the word "joyance" in "Lines on an Autumnal Evening" (1796), and then chose to redeploy the term in "The Nightingale," with the reasonable expectation of the word's antique strangeness to his readers.
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Treasury for public dues, and after having been to a great extent recoined at the Mint has been paid out to the public creditors and gone into circulation as a currency among the people.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
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Mexico and Peru, to an amount in value of many millions of dollars, are now annually diverted and carried by the ships of Great Britain to her own ports, to be recoined or used to sustain her national bank, and thus contribute to increase her ability to command so much of the commerce of the world.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
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If a branch mint be established at the great commercial point upon that coast, a vast amount of bullion and specie would flow thither to be recoined, and pass thence to New Orleans, New York, and other
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
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This led to an exchange of our dollars for the Spanish ones, which were promptly recoined at the mint at a fair profit to the depositor.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman
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In this point, as in all others, the underlying eternal meaning of the Law was recoined and reissued by Christianity; no jot or tittle of its spirit passed away.
Stray Thoughts for Girls Lucy H. M. Soulsby
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