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noun

as in initiation

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verb

present participle of found
as in establishing
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 founding
Noun
Taalas has raised a total of $219 million in venture funding since its 2023 founding. — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026 Three stadiums are operational where two existed at the league's founding. — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026 His professional background is in private equity, and LAFC, the team he's been with since its founding in 2014, which is widely regarded as one of the most capably run franchises in MLS. — Becky Sullivan, NPR, 5 Aug. 2026 Since the founding of the Gulf Cooperation Council in 1981, leaders of its six member countries – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – have channeled efforts into regional integration. — Firmesk Rahim, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026 Since its founding in 2009, Little Free Library has expanded its reach from its roots in Hudson, Wis. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026 Since its founding in 2018, the organization has advocated for policies providing over 10 million people with an opportunity to clear an old record. — Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2026 Jeffrey Hall, a former employee and founding partner, was appointed and confirmed to serve in the EPA late last year. — Laura Romero, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026 SpaceX was a private company from its founding in 2002 until mid-June of this year, when Elon Musk took it public in the largest IPO in history. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
When Yale and Connecticut Children’s announced closure of their gender clinics, Mel Cordner, founding director of the LGBTQ youth organization Q Plus, said that gender-affirming care has been proven to save lives. — Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2026 Her appointment in 2020 formally brought the fourth generation of the founding family into the company’s creative leadership. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026 GTMfund's Paul Irving calls distribution the last sustainable moat, and Balaji Srinivasan argues every startup now needs a founding content creator, as Forbes reported in April. — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Chesky went to the Rhode Island School of Design and studied industrial design before co-founding Airbnb. — Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026 Baker was known to regale locals with the history of their own homes and the founding Monrovians who lived there before them. — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026 Alphabet is a founding investor in the new company and will supply cloud compute. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026 Hoag, who was an early investor in Netflix, has served as a founding general partner at venture-capital firm Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) since 1995. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 July 2026 Previously Mendelovitz served as SVP and Head of Drama Development at 20th Television and as Senior Creative Executive for Scripted & Unscripted Programming at Apple TV as part of the streamer’s founding executive team. — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 29 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for founding
  1. initiation
  2. establishing
  3. creation
  4. pioneering
  5. institution
  6. initiating
  7. inauguration
  8. launching
Noun
  • Yet here is Stribling, who appears to have every opportunity to defy the traditional Shanahan initiation ritual by making play after play so far this summer.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • That premium repositioning is already evident at The Els Club, where membership requires a €100,000 initiation fee and new memberships are released in limited quarterly tranches.
    — Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of initiation
Verb
  • Taken together, Ukraine is seeking to field autonomous systems that are cheap, effective, and easy to use, while establishing clear benchmarks to measure their performance.
    — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • When possible, avoid establishing a new lawn in the heat of summer.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of establishing
Noun
  • The ability to program opposite movements into a single material could simplify the creation of soft machines with more complex behaviors.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The results show that evolved stars like IRS 3 can still produce dust and other materials important for the creation of future stars – even under the harsh conditions near a supermassive black hole.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of creation
Verb
  • The great wealth transfer is set to hand upward of $124 trillion to a new generation by 2048, while pioneering tech founders and AI investors are generating unprecedented wealth through radical disruption.
    — James Chen, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Denver became a household name playing the title role on Gilligan’s Island, while Kuehl left acting behind entirely to become a pioneering figure in the California legislature.
    — Sophie Clausen, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of pioneering
Noun
  • In every other high-stakes industry, independent institutions exist precisely so that public safety doesn’t depend on voluntary transparency.
    — Andrew Freedman, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The company also is being asked to provide free broadband and Wi-Fi service for about 50 eligible institutions, including schools, libraries and community centers for several years.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of institution
Verb
  • Both partners should share responsibility for initiating connection and creating the conditions where desire can develop.
    — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The debt collector should negotiate with the debtor prior to initiating a lawsuit.
    — Elliot Raphaelson, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of initiating
Noun
  • He was joined at the inauguration by several conservative presidents from across the region, including Argentina's Javier Milei, Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa and Chile’s José Antonio Kast.
    — Armando Regil Velasco, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Some 11,000 troops have been deployed to the city to ensure the safety of the new president and the roughly dozen heads of state attending the inauguration.
    — Manuel Rueda, NPR, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of inauguration
Verb
  • The two countries struck a memorandum of understanding in June aimed at halting the conflict, restoring shipping traffic, launching negotiations over Iran's nuclear program and eventually loosening sanctions on Iran.
    — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • This year, the company lit Chinese social media on fire by launching GD01, an over 3-meter tall, transformable robot that can carry a human pilot in its cockpit—priced from $650,000.
    — Yue Wang, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of launching

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