How to Use neologism in a Sentence

neologism

noun

• Does the definition match the part of speech of the neologism?
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 30 June 2022
• Gender-neutral neologisms like ha, hizzer, E, shim, thare, um and ita never even left the hangar.
  — Time, 17 Jan. 2020
• The Savage neologism later made news in the runup to the 2012 presidential election.
  — Kyle Peterson, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
• This week’s contest — to transpose two letters in a word or phrase — has often been an option in our change-a-letter neologism contests over the years.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• Coining neologisms was and still is one of Coupland’s things.
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017
• The key is that there are 24 different permutations of the letters, and even ones like DBIE can work because the neologism could be a multi-word phrase as well as a single word, and the block can stretch over a space.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• But there is a strain of wishful thinking in the idea that neologisms, revamped grammars, could effect better living.
  — Elisa Gabbert, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• After all, even the simplest of idioms was once a neologism vying for recognition.
  — Sam Corbin, New York Times, 9 July 2023
• Instead, these books feature a new kind of mutant—wonky business writers endowed with bulging brainpans and killer neologisms.
  — Jennifer Alsever, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2011
• To Walker's amusement, his book sometimes appeared in the art instruction section of bookstores, and his neologisms would pop up in discussions about the art of cartooning.
  — Ali Bahrampour, chicagotribune.com, 27 Jan. 2018
• The segment also feels dated, strangled by the unimaginative neologism of the fraught summer that preceded it.
  — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• Leave it to northern Europeans to come up with a neologism to describe a complicated emotional state.
  — Lisa Abend, Time, 1 Aug. 2019
• Shunkaryougen — a Japanese four-kanji neologism coined by Haru herself — will be released digitally and as a 12-inch vinyl.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 15 Feb. 2022
• Richard Nolle invented the neologism for an article published in Dell Horoscope magazine in 1979.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 4 June 2021
• But the word sovranismo, a neologism that entered the common political discourse in the past couple of years, denotes something more radical than nationalism.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 17 July 2019
• Some of the lexicon’s most provocative moments involve recent neologisms.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2020
• In recent months rumors had abounded that a fifth column—a neologism to Britain at the time, now universally understood to refer to traitors living within their country of asylum—had assisted the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
  — Simon Parkin, Time, 2 Nov. 2022
• The firm’s name is itself a neologism taken from Uchronie, the title of a book written by 19th-century French philosopher Charles Renouvier, referring to a hypothetical time period of our world.
  — Gay Gassmann, ELLE Decor, 20 Apr. 2023
• The neologism also offered a useful means of describing and studying how the impacts of climate change reach beyond tangible, physical, and economic damages.
  — Madeline Ostrander, The Atlantic, 23 July 2022
• Fake news — a neologism to describe stories that are just not true, like Pizzagate, and a term now co-opted to characterize unfavorable news — has given new urgency to the teaching of media literacy.
  — Interview By Sydney Ember, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2017
• Unfortunately, not all neologisms are as adorkable as, well, adorkable.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2018
• Unaware of any word that could describe her situation, Webster saw an opportunity for neologism.
  — Michelle Nijhuis, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2017
• These neologisms have confused many a parent, grandparent, language-purists, and yes, even editors of prominent digital publications.
  — Sanaya Chandar, Quartz India, 6 Dec. 2019
• Allusions, dramatic asides, neologisms and flamboyant punctuation became the hallmarks of his style.
  — Thomas Curwen, sacbee, 15 May 2018
• The internet neologism, coined to describe the wearing of utilitarian, outdoor-minded clothing in everyday situations, feels very 2023.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024