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  1. foundedverb

    To set up; to launch; to institute.

  2. foundedverb

    Use as a basis for; grounded on.

  3. foundedadjective

    Having a basis.

    She offered a well-founded hypothesis.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Founded

    of Found

  2. Founded

    of Found

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'founded' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3496

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of founded in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of founded in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of founded in a Sentence

  1. Rachel Thomas:

    Sheryl brought new energy to the conversation about women's leadership, and she founded LeanIn.Org to do her part to advance women in the workplace, with more of Sheryl's insights and energy, we'll be able to do more, more quickly, and that's exciting.

  2. Valerie Montgomery Rice:

    It is time for us to take charge of what is happening in our communities and lead by example, the Morehouse School of Medicine was founded 47 years ago to do exactly this to take care of our community.

  3. Abraham Lincoln:

    Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

  4. Marco Tulio:

    There is no relation between these things. Yes, the minister has come with this argument, and he has well-founded arguments for the case he is making. But this has no relation with the other topics of negotiation here, yesterday we had a long meeting and he at no point established this link. These things are not linked. This negotiation is happening in parallel.

  5. Chief Executive Vitaly Savelyev:

    In today's falling market we have well-founded reasons to cancel the contract, we don't see a market where it is possible to use this aircraft. We haven't yet seen the worst of this crisis.

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