founder
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“Everyone wants to pick and squeeze. That will almost always make things worse,” said Dr. Lauren Fine, founder of Fine Dermatology in Chicago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Doug Douglas, founder of Avon Valley Adventure Park, said their Halloween events grow every year and now generate a third of their yearly income.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
“The cats were originally for pest control,” says Ben Aubuchon, marketing manager for Aubuchon and great-grandson of the founder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Bob Lang, founder of the trading service Explosive Options, said that even as investors ride earnings optimism, he feels that markets are “extremely complacent” right now.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026
It turns out that the eastern U.S. founder crops were four plants domesticated in the period 2500-1500 B.C., a full 6,000 years after wheat and barley domestication in the Fertile Crescent.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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By the 1980s, he had become one of the founders of the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at The Open University in Milton Keynes.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
AfCRA's founders say there will be no government interference.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Even before they had any shoes to sell, On’s founders believed less could be much, much more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The partnership between Garelick’s American High Studios, Live Nation Studios, and, in turn, the Rolling Loud founders and organizers, was essential to make that goal achievable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Dr. James Edward Shepard, one of the Mutual’s founders, who quit the firm to devote himself to education, was also a Washington man.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Henry Ford’s first two automobile-manufacturing companies foundered before the Ford Motor Co. opened in 1903, changing the world with Ford’s dream of an automobile that the average American family could afford.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 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
Le Pen's attempts to win the presidency foundered, although he finished runner-up in 2002.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
Victarion had no way to know whether they had foundered, run aground, or been blown off course.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
Though British rule over his home country of Jamaica ended in 1962, independence and economic mismanagement led to high unemployment and a foundering youth culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
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
“The Shadow of a Doubt,” a full-length 1901 play that got close to a Broadway opening before foundering under murky circumstances.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
“Joseph,” I begin, foundering well beyond my depth.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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