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Example sentences for: founded

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In the early sixth century, a monk from India named Da Mo arrived at Shaolin, where he founded Chan Buddhism.
AOL would never have existed if it had been founded here, I am sure, since its employees would have been mocked into obscurity by the digerati.
Such trading rights attracted more Britons to the island, who founded dynastic families that in some cases still constitute the island’s economic elite.
She was also a playwright and a novelist, but I like best her film Losing Ground . When I was still editing Black Film Review , the magazine I founded (shameless plug!)
After the battle, local chiefs made peace with the invaders and, on 6 January 1542, the Montejos founded the Spanish city of Mérida on the site.