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[foun-der] / ˈfaʊn dər /




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“There are certainly a lot of people who I think have grown in recognition as to the salience of the threat,” said Jake Adler, the 22-year-old founder and CEO of Pilgrim.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 23, 2026

The Navatek founder, Loui, had long since soured on his chosen successor.

From Salon Sep. 23, 2026

Virginia Sole-Smith, author of Fat Talk and founder of the Burnt Toast newsletter and podcast, highlights that in today’s world, “you have to make a really conscious choice to protect your right to have hunger.”

From Slate Sep. 23, 2026

Tanner Kelly, founder of the pro-merger organization Neighbors for Strong Communities, said his group had been concerned about job losses if Paramount were to leave California.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2026

Rob Malda, the founder of Slashdot, was also urging me to stop.

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

Before hiring, these founders are asking if AI can do the job instead.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

Many of these first-generation founders are bad at hobbies.

From MarketWatch Sep. 21, 2026

‘They grind and keep pushing. … Many of these first-generation founders are bad at hobbies.’

From MarketWatch Sep. 21, 2026

For some founders, staying small is just fine.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 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

Earlier efforts to establish a U.S. rare-earth industry foundered because China has flooded the market, undermining the business case.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

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

In May 1999, Sir Tony Blair received an update from the Treasury, in a document warning that discussions with ICL over the terms of a deal "have foundered".

From BBC Apr. 25, 2025

By the end of the year, the campaign foundered.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

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

His knights rode destriers, and the big warhorses were foundering in the snow.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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