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Example sentences for: founded

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He also founded and, with his son, David, still edits the Barnhart Dictionary Companion [ BDC ], a periodical report on new words that features the staple of Barnhart lexicography--full, dated citations.
Americans imagine the striving, suffering Irishwomen and the hard-drinking, hard-fighting, working-class Irishmen to be the sort of people who founded, and now form the backbone of, our own country.
When Joseph Smith's successor, Brigham Young, founded Desert/Utah, he sent colonists out to places as far away as Colonia Juarez, Mexico; Cardston, Alberta, Canada; San Bernardino, California, and all over Wyoming, Idoho, Nevada, and Arizona.
In the early sixth century, a monk from India named Da Mo arrived at Shaolin, where he founded Chan Buddhism.
This critique is well founded, but it's only half of one dimension of the story.