founder
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López Beltrán is the son of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the founder of the leftist ruling party Morena, and the powerful mentor of the current Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
This bearish view on markets comes from the founder and managing director of CrossBorder Capital, Mike Howell, who was interviewed on the Macro Voices podcast Thursday.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Liverpool's owners have agreed to sell a minority stake in the Premier League club to a consortium including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Montgomerie, the founder of the ConservativeHome website, defected to Reform two years ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
To founder is to collapse, fail completely, or sink like a ship.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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However, it fell into disrepair when one of the founders died in 2010 and now the Friends of Newchapel Observatory are hoping to reopen it.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Thirsty Beijingers have another option: free AI for customers at AGI Bar, which opened last summer as a hub for developers, founders and investors.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Hjalmar Nilsonne, one of the founders of Neko Health, wants to see this preventative treatment available for every individual, not just those who can afford to pay for it.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Some of these deals are welcomed by investors, but others leave venture backers feeling shortchanged—for example, when founders get big equity packages but investors just get their money back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
For almost forty years Bragg, a Nobel Prize winner and one of the founders of crystallography, had been watching X-ray diffraction methods solve structures of ever-increasing difficulty.*
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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Henry Ford’s first two automobile-manufacturing companies foundered before the Ford Motor Co. opened in 1903, changing the world with Ford’s dream of an automobile that the average American family could afford.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
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
Sure enough, just days after a 2-0 home win against Athletic Club in the Champions League, Newcastle foundered on the road once again - despite going ahead through Harvey Barnes.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025
And for decades, every attempt to create legal access has foundered on the rocky shoals of property rights and lumbering bureaucracy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2025
The mail foundered with the government; they received no answer.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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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
In 2019, she also became president of an education organization called Achievement for All Children, which was chosen by state officials to turn around a foundering public school in Robeson County.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
On this evening, the colleagues had more urgent concerns on their minds: how to salvage a foundering trip in Asia that was launched to find a novel food product to import to the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 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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