fountainhead

Example Sentences

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The fountainhead of the culture remains Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles, a place that is almost treated like a shrine for SoCal lowrider clubs.

From Los Angeles Times

But it wasn’t until a rally in Alabama nine months into his presidency that he first seized on what became his favorite fountainhead of easy political points.

From The Guardian

You can trace the confusion to a passing comment made in Giorgio Vasari’s 1568 “Lives of the Artists,” the gossipy fountainhead of Renaissance art history.

From New York Times

The North African nation on the Mediterranean Sea was the fountainhead of the 2011 Arab Spring protests, touched off by the self-immolation of a young fruit vendor.

From Washington Times

That fountainhead is corruption, which undermines not only trust in public institutions but also social trust.

From Scientific American