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noun

founding

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

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Six example sentences with founding, each labelled with its topic.

  • The founding of the company happened in a rented kitchen, with two people, one laptop, and no customers.

    Startups

  • The founding of the port city is dated to a single spring, when three families first built on the headland.

    History

  • The league celebrates its founding every November, screening grainy footage from the first game ever played under its rules.

    Basketball

  • The party's founding took place in a hired hall in 1900, with delegates from unions and a few sympathetic clubs.

    Politics

  • The orchestra marks its founding each October with a concert repeating the exact program played at that first performance.

    Music

  • The founding of the Royal Society in 1660 gave experimenters a room, a journal, and an audience for the first time.

    Science

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