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Example sentences for: founded

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In 1602 the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was founded and it obtained a monopoly on all trade routes east of the Cape of Good Hope.
Though it is not on a par with Kosovo and Chinese spying, I nevertheless have been reading about Hugh Hefner, the geezer in pajamas who founded Playboy around the time my father was a young man.
Israel was founded in 1948).
The first infirmary was founded in 1737; in 1805 the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal was the first in the world published to promote discussion and knowledge of medicine.
In the 1780s well over 100 cotton plantations were founded and flourished around the Bahamas.