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founder

[foun-der] / ˈfaʊn dər /




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“Everybody has big boat-itis, or they want to go faster and faster,” said Scout Boats founder Steve Potts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Karkosik, founder and principal shareholder of industrial group Boryszew, lives nearby in the small town of Kikol, in a restored 18th-century palace across from the parish church.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Dr. Heather Rogers, a dermatologist in Seattle and founder of the Doctor Rogers skincare line, told me that there are few modern scientific studies examining beef tallow as a skincare ingredient.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

The group—Class A shareholders—includes members of the Brown family, descendants of the company’s founder who currently control its voting power.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

The Lost Tribes theory was endorsed by authorities from Bartolome de Las Casas to William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, and the famed minister Cotton Mather.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The backgrounds of school founders and employees often simply don’t matter.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

Queen Victoria was on the throne when Rothamsted Research's founders, Sir John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert, began studying a field near Harpenden to find out how fertilisers and manure affected hay yields.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

The accounts have been supercharged by startup founders, hedge-fund managers and Silicon Valley insiders who have access to investment opportunities unavailable to most Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

With DTLA’s post-pandemic troubles amid a boom in dance music, Origin’s founders hope the scene can help again.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Two of the founders had very small ranges in the wild, chickpea being confined to southeastern Turkey and emmer wheat to the Fertile Crescent itself.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

After nearly a year of sailing, the ship struck a reef in heavy storms and foundered on May 21, 1832.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 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

They have delivered big, one-off victories in the Six Nations, but in the eight years on Townsend's watch, when the moment in the campaign has arrived to kick on and properly challenge, they have foundered.

From BBC Nov. 16, 2025

And for decades, every attempt to create legal access has foundered on the rocky shoals of property rights and lumbering bureaucracy.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 26, 2025

It would not be long before she foundered and sunk.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen

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

“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

On this evening, the colleagues had more urgent concerns on their minds: how to salvage a foundering trip in Asia that was launched to find a novel food product to import to the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times May 3, 2023

The men took turns hacking ice off the thwarts and bows, and bailing to keep the small boats from foundering.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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