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[foun-der] / ˈfaʊn dər /




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Tax records identified the founder and operator of the nonprofit as 59-year-old Ewa Hanna Konca.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 23, 2026

In a statement to ProPublica, Navatek founder Loui said Kao’s “unethical and illegal method of winning contracts” was a departure from how he operated the company prior to Kao’s ownership.

From Salon Sep. 23, 2026

Virginia Sole-Smith, author of Fat Talk and founder of the Burnt Toast newsletter and podcast, highlights that in today’s world, “you have to make a really conscious choice to protect your right to have hunger.”

From Slate Sep. 23, 2026

“If you run an ocean liner, you can’t turn it around by tomorrow,” said Alois Pirker, founder of Pirker Partners, which advises wealth managers.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

A gigantic heliogram of founder Louis Antonio Villarreal tipped his wide-brimmed hat.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

“I’m sure we’ll invest in some of the founders that come out.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

All are still run by their founders, says Vinall, and each has a wide moat around its business.

From MarketWatch Sep. 21, 2026

‘They grind and keep pushing. … Many of these first-generation founders are bad at hobbies.’

From MarketWatch Sep. 21, 2026

For some founders, staying small is just fine.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

Joe Flom and the founders of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz got multiple breaks.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

A plan to convert it to a private school foundered during Covid and Sebastian said it is considering next steps.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Authentic specializes in acquiring and investing in famous retail properties that have foundered.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 5, 2026

Instead, they foundered in the breeze, squeezing out whatever bitter juice was left in a dirge that would prove to drag on for at least another week.

From Slate Feb. 23, 2026

Plans to introduce a universal healthcare system also foundered in the legislature, while unemployment and interest rates both soared.

From BBC Dec. 29, 2024

Our first attempt to explore how consumer product companies exploit class foundered when a major cosmetics company, which initially agreed to let a reporter inside their marketing department, got cold feet.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

The commitments from senior management and an influential figure like Ma, who is no longer on the company’s board, helped to shore up Alibaba’s foundering share price.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

In 1981, Esquire magazine ran a story written by onetime UPI photo staffer Stanley P. Friedman about the most-requested pictures that never actually existed: A shot of the foundering Titanic in 1912.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

The unusually large, half-point rate reduction is expected to be the first in a series of cuts, aimed at helping keep the economy and the labor market from foundering.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2024

What’s more, in the Spy magazine era, Mr. Trump was just a local nuisance, a braggart presiding over a foundering casino-hotel empire.

From Salon Feb. 9, 2024

A trocar being a sheathed sort of ice pick instrument you stab into the bellies of foundering ruminants to let out the deadly gases.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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