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founder

[foun-der] / ˈfaʊn dər /




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Iceland may be a founder member of Nato but it has no military and relies on its allies for defence.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

Adam Christing is best known as the founder of Clean Comedians, a group that includes Nate Bargatze and specializes in stand-up routines that are free of profanity and dirty jokes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Kofi Asante, founder and chief executive of Bluecore Energy said his company is working on a relatively new form of nuclear power created by small modular reactors.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

Crisis PR commentator, Lauren Beeching, founder of Honest London says Gomez is far from the first celebrity to try working with a close family member.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Mike Brown was a warm, easygoing guy, not only the founder of the Geek Club, but one of the school’s football coaches.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

Startup founders are working harder than ever to keep up with their nonhuman employees.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

As he researched, Barton said he was shocked to find that the majority of the founders were deeply devout, rather than the religion-shunning men he had learned about.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

The festival’s founders boast quite an industry lineage, having met on the set of a Sofia Coppola movie, where they were production assistants.

From Salon Aug. 22, 2026

For anyone watching founders seemingly blow up on social media overnight, she says it's important to remember that the viral moment is often the part of the story everyone sees rather than the beginning.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Back in Washington, D.C., the Public Allies founders had mustered a fledgling class of fifteen Allies who were working in various organizations around the city.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

Le Pen's attempts to win the presidency foundered, although he finished runner-up in 2002.

From BBC Dec. 31, 2025

The five living presidents who succeeded him, whose own Mideast peace efforts sometimes bore brief fruit but more often foundered, have all paid public tribute to him, in their own ways.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 1, 2025

It would not be long before she foundered and sunk.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen

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

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

A canopy, which had been carried on four poles over somebody or something, was sinking with the poles askew, like a liner foundering in Atlantic.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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