- present tense form of founder (3rd person singular).
founders
Example Sentences
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OpenAI and Anthropic might help by speeding up their IPOs, making them more responsive to a broad shareholding public rather than their highly ideologized and oddball founders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Though many items are favorites of the founders, the restaurant, Cardoso said, was built for everyone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
How Gilt Groupe helped pave the way for female startup founders in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Jack Clark, one of seven founders of Anthropic, said a way of shutting off AI software completely if it gets too dangerous was the kind of thing society "might want to eventually pass rules around".
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Over the course of the next four decades, the national debate over slavery and its expansion into the West was often framed as an argument over the intent of the founders.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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