fountainhead

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Muslims attached to the Gyanvapi mosque said the court-appointed surveyors had mistaken a fountainhead in the water tank as a Hindu idol and motifs were flowers embedded in Persian design.

From Reuters • May 20, 2022

That’s when a theater kid from Compton, Calif., flew some 3,000 miles from home to begin his freshman year at “The Mecca,” what Howard students call the historically Black fountainhead of talent.

From Washington Post • May 11, 2022

The R.S.S. is widely considered the ideological fountainhead for Mr. Modi’s party.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021

Yet bordering countries, as well as some in the wider region, fear a Taliban-led state could pose a potent threat — as an exporter of extremism, or a fountainhead of refugee flight, or both.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2021

I think that nowhere is the black continent’s wealth and the natural beauty of its people richer than in Ghana, which is so proudly the very fountainhead of Pan-Africanism.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey