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[faun-der] / ˈfaʊn dər /




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Cameron Berg is the founder of Reciprocal Research, a nonprofit that conducts empirical research on AI consciousness and welfare.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

“L.A. and New York have arguably never understood why country has been such a big deal,” said Scott Borchetta, founder and chairman of Big Machine Records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

"We're going to find scary vulnerabilities with the amazing capabilities that OpenAI and Anthropic are bringing online, but we need to calibrate the messaging," posted Mark Maunder, founder of Wordfence - a Wordpress security tool.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

"Unfortunately, so many women in the winter have to change their routines of running outside because they don't feel safe," says Hollie Thackway, founder of She Strides.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

All of Southwest Asia’s founder crops preempted domestication of any of their close relatives throughout the whole expanse of western Eurasia.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The holding group, founded by former Havas executive Anthony Freedman and headquartered in London, aims to offer creative founders an alternative to the private-equity firms circling the industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Counting earlier pledges by its founders and employees, Anthropic said about a fifth of its stock will be directed to public benefit, with more possible if it hits valuation targets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

“We want to show that a small group can in fact get a bad law changed,” said Adam Ash, one of the organization’s founders, and a third-year student at the University of Chicago.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

The four founders invested about $23,000 collectively to get it off the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

"Yes, I think so. I was one of the original founders, you know."

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

After nearly a year of sailing, the ship struck a reef in heavy storms and foundered on May 21, 1832.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 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

In May 1999, Sir Tony Blair received an update from the Treasury, in a document warning that discussions with ICL over the terms of a deal "have foundered".

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025

The five living presidents who succeeded him, whose own Mideast peace efforts sometimes bore brief fruit but more often foundered, have all paid public tribute to him, in their own ways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2025

I made it through the front door but then foundered on the bottom stairs.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

It mentions no relationships other than his two marriages and affords no insight into the foundering of his first, with Laurie Lennard, an environmental activist and producer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The commitments from senior management and an influential figure like Ma, who is no longer on the company’s board, helped to shore up Alibaba’s foundering share price.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

The unusually large, half-point rate reduction is expected to be the first in a series of cuts, aimed at helping keep the economy and the labor market from foundering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024

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

His knights rode destriers, and the big warhorses were foundering in the snow.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin


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