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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
During his decade at the house, Vaccarello’s conduct both reflected and amplified some of the patterns first sketched by the house’s great founding designer. — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2026 In between these interviews are glimpses of the occasional Israeli news media snippet and at one point an archival reminder of the circumstances of Tel Aviv’s founding. — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 The town’s prosperity faded within decades of its 1908 founding, due to a local company refusing to supply water and the removal of the train stop to another town. — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2026 If mice are congregating in the area, there will be multiple droppings, but if the population is small, a trail of droppings may be found in areas where mice move but do not stay, notes founding partner of Pest Control Warrior Greg Baumann. — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 8 Oct. 2026 The facility has been operating since 1839, when Jerusalem was still part of the Ottoman Empire, predating the founding of Israel by more than a century. — Dov Lieber, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 Washington succeeds Klassie Alcine, who led the organization as CEO from its founding in 2018. — Kansas City Star, 8 Oct. 2026 Since its founding in 2020, the production label has quickly become the go-to shop for high-quality sports content. — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Oct. 2026 Overall sales have been on a downward trend since the gallery’s founding, decreasing by about 40 percent over the past three years. — News Desk, Artforum, 7 Oct. 2026
Verb
Tom Hastings, the founding director of PeaceVoice, said the organization beefed up its existing no-AI policy after OpenAI contacted him. — Miriam Waldvogel, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026 In 2024, the group’s founding four musicians — guitarist Blake Ibanez, guitarist Nick Stewart, bassist Chris Whetzel, and drummer Chris Ulsh — confirmed plans to reunite, enlisting singer Seth Gilmore for a series of live shows that year. — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2026 Site Bionics was founded by Adam Blair, who is the founding chief technology officer of Radar, and Don Gillett, who is the former head architect of Amazon Go. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026 During those same years, Erika Donalds was expanding her work in the charter-school sector, founding the Optima Foundation in 2017 and helping establish additional classical charter schools. — Crystal Etienne, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026 Born in London in 1960, Grainge came up in a music family, with his late brother, Nigel, founding the record label Ensign Records. — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026 Kimberly Blaeser, former Wisconsin poet laureate, is the founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets. — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026 Hansson is the Danish entrepreneur known for creating Ruby on Rails and co-founding the company behind Basecamp. — Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 8 Oct. 2026 The founding mayors lead cities including Atlanta, Jacksonville, Boise, Tulsa and Memphis -- governing more than 7 million Americans across 11 red and purple states, according to a memo for the new coalition. — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for founding
  1. initiation
  2. establishing
  3. creation
  4. pioneering
  5. institution
  6. initiating
  7. inauguration
  8. launching
Noun
  • Members are charged a $10,000 annual fee, plus a $5,000 initiation fee, according to company materials reviewed by Fortune.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
  • That said, their relative scarcity means that initiation and membership fees are a multiple of those charged at home.
    — Mark Cecil, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of initiation
Verb
  • Without first establishing a network of plausible deniability?
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026
  • However, the Georgia program remains an important step in establishing how the technology will work within real railway operations.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of establishing
Noun
  • Firms may opt out of consideration during the list creation process.
    — Kelli Grant, CFP®,Riley de León, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
  • His own label is known for its upbeat creations like the Kandinsky-esque Mobile chandelier that comes together in an abstract punctuation of pin-thin rods.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of creation
Verb
  • Dawn Porter is set to direct a feature documentary on pioneering Black TV news anchor Max Robinson for Wise Child Studios.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The girls of summer Women's pro baseball has been largely inactive in this country since the pioneering All-American Girls Professional Baseball League folded 72 years ago.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of pioneering
Noun
  • This year there are 339 exhibiting companies and institutions from 32 countries and territories, 17% more than last year.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
  • The result is a country spending heavily to sustain its public institutions while struggling to deliver the services citizens expect and a political system increasingly consumed by conflict over how to fix them.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of institution
Verb
  • The Vatican typically allows criminal investigations to play out before initiating canonical trials so as not to interfere, and that is especially so now in Australia, after the church's wretched legacy there of abuse and cover-up.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Wagner missed all of his three 3-point attempts but did a little bit of everything on both ends of the floor while initiating Orlando’s offense often.
    — Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of initiating
Noun
  • Peñalver’s inauguration Friday will follow a Mass honoring the university’s Catholic and Jesuit traditions.
    — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Meta donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, a move that earned Zuckerberg a prominent spot on the dais alongside a bevy of other tech executives.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of inauguration
Verb
  • Tom Ford was among the early brands to scale the luxury fragrance segment, launching in China in 2015, for instance.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Ossoff demands Collins account for Iran war Discussion about tariffs and trade at Georgia's ports became a launching point for Ossoff to mention the war with Iran.
    — AJC.com, AJC.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of launching

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“Founding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/founding. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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