"originally coined" is a perfectly acceptable phrase used in written English.
It is used when someone has previously mentioned a phrase or term which has been attributed to them, or to someone else. For example: "The term 'quantum leap' was originally coined by physicist Niels Bohr."
Although the name was originally coined as a portmanteau combining "paraplegic" (due to its origins as games for people with spinal injuries) and "Olympic," the inclusion of other disability groups meant that this was no longer considered very accurate.
The term Outsider art was originally coined in 1972 by the English critic Roger Cardinal.
The phrase comes from East Harlem slang in the 1990s, originally coined by Rapper Cam'ron.
"I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties," he told me.
A traditional nickname for the Madrileños is gatos ("cats"), originally coined in the Middle Ages as a reference to the ability of local troops to scale castle walls.
In a recent interview with Knowles in Teen Vogue, Stenberg compared it to "shine theory", a phrase originally coined by New York magazine journalist Ann Friedman.
Originally coined by an author in 2006 to describe an emerging type of male who is gentle, kind and passive, the phrase is now in everyday use.
The chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management International, who originally coined the acronym, added, "But South Africa as a representative of the African continent is a different story".
The term was originally coined by scientists to describe circadian rhythms, the processes that tell our bodies when we should rise, eat, and sleep.
The irony is that "heterosexual" and "homosexual" were both originally coined by 19th-century medics to describe what was then considered an aberration.
The snappier name "Obamacare" was originally coined by a health industry lobbyist, and then first applied derisively by Mitt Romney in 2007.
