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founders

NOUN

person who establishes an institution

Synonyms

STRONGEST

architect author benefactor builder creator designer inventor organizer patron planner

STRONG

beginner constructor framer generator initiator maker originator

WEAK

establisher forebearer institutor prime mover

Antonyms

STRONGEST

opponent

VERB

go under, fail

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abort break down fall through stumble

STRONG

collapse fall lurch miscarry misfire sink sprawl stagger submerge submerse trip

WEAK

be lost come to nothing go down go lame go to bottom

Antonyms

STRONG

increase rise

WEAK

accomplish achieve succeed

Example Sentences

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One of the founders of Brewdog has announced plans to launch a new beer brand, promising free shares to people who lost money in his original venture.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

Nvidia’s founders, like Hassabis, were drawn to the economic prospects of videogames — an industry that offered a rare combination of high sales volumes and voracious appetite for computing power.

From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026

To build brand recognition, the founders for years stuck with a single color scheme—“deep ocean and shallow water.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

Google and Facebook both put in place supervoting shares before they went public, granting their founders a level of outsized control.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

In 1301, Giotto, one of the founders of modern realistic painting, witnessed another apparition of Comet Hailey and inserted it into a nativity scene.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan