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[foun-der] / ˈfaʊn dər /




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Bubble Skincare founder and CEO Shai Eisenman says many of the customers who buy her products—such as the Cosmic Rain hydrating mist or Star Dew eye cream—say $20 is their price ceiling.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Nic Puckrin, founder of Coin Bureau, shared a view similar to that of D.A.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

The sale was arranged by Scott Keeney, founder of the Realest, a Los Angeles-based enterprise specializing in sports and entertainment memorabilia.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Ignace Lecleir, founder of the TRB Hospitality Group, which runs eight high-end Beijing restaurants serving Chinese-made foie gras, said there is “definitely a much higher demand than before.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

The voice belonged to Luma Mufleh, the thirty-one-year-old founder and volunteer coach of the Fugees.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John

Before launching, the pair met with the former charity's founders Jack Doyle and Graham Hall, who gave them "their blessing" to continue the work.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

Long-term prosperity also requires entrepreneurs, small businesses, healthcare innovators, energy and aerospace companies, software startups, manufacturers and founders building the next generation of industries.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Catherine Wygant Fossett, executive director of the Institute for Family-Owned Business, said founders need to consider succession when they start their business and not wait until they’re ready to retire.

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 2026

Given Central City’s post-pandemic troubles, amid a boom in dance music across culture more broadly, Origin’s founders hope the scene can do it again.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

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

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 5, 2026

The original plan was to go into partnership with Porsche, but that deal foundered by late summer 2022.

From BBC Feb. 24, 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

But then the Fed foundered on fundamentals and inflation surged.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

‘Yes,’ said Faramir, ‘of the land of Westernesse that foundered, and of the great dark wave climbing over the green lands and above the hills, and coming on, darkness unescapable. I often dream of it.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

In 2019, she also became president of an education organization called Achievement for All Children, which was chosen by state officials to turn around a foundering public school in Robeson County.

From New York Times Jul. 30, 2023

They came out in large numbers in the aftermath of a shipwreck to stand on the beach and stare in awe at the latest foundering vessel; some brought binoculars and cameras.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson




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