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founder

[foun-der] / ˈfaʊn dər /




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The couple’s most prominent advocate was Soong Ching-ling, the American-educated widow of Republican China’s founder, Sun Yat-sen.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Dale Anderson, founder of the 93-acre exotic cat haven, told The Times the sanctuary staff members start their day at 7 a.m. to tend to the animals.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 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

Creating an asset inventory should be the first step, said Michael DeMassa, a certified financial planner and founder of Forza Wealth Management.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

It was necessary for Romulus not to stay in Alba, and that he be exposed at birth, so that he might become king of Rome and founder of that nation.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Its owner Leonid Radvinsky, who died earlier this year aged 43, bought the site from its British founders in 2018.

From BBC Aug. 25, 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

“A lot of people exaggerate the 9-9-6,” he says, referring to founders who post online about working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

“Allow illiquid founders to pledge shares with a loan from the government to pay tax,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

One by one the old women who had been founders of the town, several of whom had taken part in the daring crossing of the mountains, praised the virtues of General Moncada.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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

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

“Dad knows we didn’t kill Miss Myrt. She died of her own meanness. The bile backed up in her, and she foundered on it.”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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

But by the time Polanco became a free agent last winter, his career was foundering.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 11, 2025

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

Cross gales he blew, making me lose my bearings, and heaved up seas beyond imagination— huge and foundering seas.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer




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