- present tense form of founder (3rd person singular).
founders
Example Sentences
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With DTLA’s post-pandemic troubles amid a boom in dance music, Origin’s founders hope the scene can help again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The accounts have been supercharged by startup founders, hedge-fund managers and Silicon Valley insiders who have access to investment opportunities unavailable to most Americans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
For the founders of an award-winning community compost business, it's a no-brainer that the second answer is the correct one.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
During his meetings with founders, they put phones out on the conference table and then inch them toward him, like he is an athlete at a postgame interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Yet the PAC aroused in me the hope that even though the founders were breakaway ANC men, unity between our two groups was possible.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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