fountainhead
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Mr. Brady “couldn’t see it then,” Mr. Anderson writes, “but this reframing would become the foundation of all his future triumphs . . . and the fountainhead of all his greatest trials.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
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
The only fountainhead which had once been near and which had once sung loudly within him, now murmured softly in the distance.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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