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Princeton's WordNet

  1. initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instaurationnoun

    the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

    "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society"

Wiktionary

  1. foundingnoun

    The action of the verb to found.

  2. foundingadjective

    Who or that founds or found.

    The founding fathers of our country.

ChatGPT

  1. founding

    Founding refers to the action of establishing or creating an institution, organization, company, city, or any other entity. It usually involves setting up the basis, structure, or system for something to begin operating or functioning. The person or group that carries out this action is often referred to as the founder or founders.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Founding

    of Found

  2. Founding

    of Found

  3. Foundingnoun

    the art of smelting and casting metals

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of founding in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of founding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of founding in a Sentence

  1. Chuck Schumer:

    The truth is, each side can blame the other—we believe they’re more in the wrong, they believe we’re more in the wrong, the game of pointing fingers and they-started-it can go back and back and back to the very founding of the republic.

  2. Todd Brandow:

    He really was one of the greats, he was the founding figure of modernism in photography and the modern woman in fashion photography, as well as modern portraiture.

  3. Bill Lee on Wednesday:

    The United States and Tennessee have always been, since the very founding of our nation, a shining beacon of freedom and opportunity for the persecuted and oppressed, particularly those suffering religious persecution, my administration has worked extensively to determine the best outcome for Tennessee, and I will consent to working with President Trump and his administration to responsibly resettle refugees.

  4. Larry Klayman:

    The defendants, if not legally reined in, are allegedly responsible, along with others, for igniting a race war that will ultimately totally destroy the freedoms that our Founding Fathers bequeathed to us.

  5. James Lankford:

    Most of the problems we have in this nation right now is not our Constitution. It’s not our founders. It’s that we’re not following those founding principles, and we’re not following through on the Constitution. That’s the real issue in the republic right now, we get back to following founding principles again, and we can have the same advance to the most powerful, most moral military in the world, the strongest economy in the world, and the greatest light, hope, and opportunity for the rest of the world. The world’s counting on us to be able to get this right because they know if we can’t get it right, there’s no chance that they can get it right.

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