In a sentence
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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Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
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