FOUNDED Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

founded

verb

past tense of found

as in established

to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of John Harvard did not actually found the university that now bears his name

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Recent Examples of founded Brandon McElroy, who founded the nonprofit Green Air Solutions to lead the fight against J7, said in an interview that the denial was a decisive win. — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026 That announcement came after Wedgewood was asked to comment on the findings of an investigation into its work by FiftyPlusOne, a website founded by former staff of the data-journalism site FiveThirtyEight. — Scott Clement, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026 Andalusian Private Capital & Advisory was founded by Jeffrey Kaplan and Nicholas Savasta in 2020 with three core businesses focused on private equity, private credit and sports advisory. — Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 22 Oct. 2026 Alpha was founded in Austin, Texas, in 2014 by MacKenzie Price, who has become an outspoken critic of traditional schooling. — Maya Blackstone, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 In 1982, Dennis Gillings founded Quintiles in North Carolina to run clinical trials for drugmakers. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026 The sisters also founded fashion accessories label Dannijo in 2008, expanding into sports with DannijoPro. — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026 The project involves researchers from Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering and Sensible Photonics, a startup co-founded by Pitt professor Paul Ohodnicki. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026 Composed of the Hernández brothers (Jorge, Hernán, Eduardo and Luis) and cousin Óscar Lara, Los Tigres Del Norte was founded in the late 1960s in the Sinaloan town of Rosa Morada and settled in San José. — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

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Neither party appears to have established much credibility with independent voters on the issue.

— Will Johnson, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
The agency was established in 2021 to make sure electrical utilities work to reduce the risk of wildfires caused by their equipment.

— Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of established

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The facility depends on the same KBS-3 isolation technology pioneered alongside Finland.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Apple's first foldable comes seven years after Samsung pioneered the category, but the American tech giant is expected to take a sizable chunk of the market.

— MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026

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Russia launched more than 20 attacks on Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region overnight into Sunday, using drones and an aerial bomb, according to local authorities.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
According to Ukrainian authorities, over 153 Russian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) were launched at Ukraine from Russia, mainly targeting large department stores and warehouses.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of launched

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Published on October 15 and initiated by Daniela Horn, the founder of Van Horn gallery, the letter centers around an event that was initially set to be staged at the city’s Heinrich Heine Institute on October 26.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Options trading in both stocks leaned bullish after the open Wednesday, with Meta options looking particularly one-sided as traders bought more calls than puts and more put trades likely initiated by sellers than buyers.

— Oliver Renick, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of initiated

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The government also promised 15,000 additional places in higher education, introduced across the next two years, and increases in student grants linked to inflation from the start of the next academic year.

— Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Government bond investors want cuts to public spending, less borrowing and business-friendly measures aimed at boosting growth, such as reversing some of the payroll tax increases introduced under Reeves.

— Ian King, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of introduced

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In November 2021, crew members took shelter inside their spacecraft after a Russian anti-satellite weapons test created a dangerous cloud of debris.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
The series, created by Marc Crehuet with Alejandra Guimerà, was co-penned by Crehuet with Carmen Marfá, Natalia Boadas and Serielizados co-founder Víctor Sala.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of created

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Gascón instituted a number of unilateral policies on his first day in office — barring prosecutors from trying juveniles as adults, seeking the death penalty or charging certain misdemeanors — that left him at war with his own staff.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
French authorities instituted overnight curfews in several cities Monday in a bid to control violent cost-of-living protests that have fueled the country’s far right.

— Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026

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