foundation
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Since 2001, the TV festival has been run by an independent foundation based in London.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Ms. Kusama, whose death earlier this month at age 97 was announced Thursday by her museum and foundation, was born in Matsumoto to a well-off but unhappy family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The foundation funds the program, along with several other donors.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Such structures could later have helped insects exploit a wide variety of terrestrial microhabitats and may have provided an anatomical foundation for their enormous later diversification.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Trying to regain his footing, he realized that the firehouse had been pushed from its foundation and was actually moving.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
His critics claim he has upended the foundations of classification; his allies, that he works in the name of conservation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
After 100 days in charge, Plaid ministers say they have laid the foundations to improve public services, and have already made a "tangible" impact in areas like childcare.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The finding supports one of the foundations of modern cosmology.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Ahead of his address, the pope will visit an exhibition dedicated to St Augustine, the influential fifth-century Christian theologian who laid the foundations for the 13th century Augustinian order to which Leo belongs.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
“That is not hard to guess. Now you know better. Well, that is one of the three foundations of learning: see much, study much, suffer much.”
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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