as in to establish
to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of
John Harvard did not actually found the university that now bears his name
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In a Facebook statement, Ignite the Fire Ministry, the organization Wurm founded, confirmed the deaths.
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Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2025
The founding team comes from consumer technology companies such as X, Snap, and Jour, a mental health app Germain sold to digital health insurer Alan in 2021.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2025
Fresh produce from the island’s 18-acre Coral Bay Organic Farm and Garden Center, founded more than 30 years ago by Hugo and Josephine Roller in the Carolina Valley.
—Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2025
Specializing in lower- to mid-market majority investments in Western Europe, Evoco has invested in more than 30 companies and raised more than 320 million euros since it was founded in 2012.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 11 Nov. 2025
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Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2025
The founding team comes from consumer technology companies such as X, Snap, and Jour, a mental health app Germain sold to digital health insurer Alan in 2021.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2025
Fresh produce from the island’s 18-acre Coral Bay Organic Farm and Garden Center, founded more than 30 years ago by Hugo and Josephine Roller in the Carolina Valley.
—Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2025
Specializing in lower- to mid-market majority investments in Western Europe, Evoco has invested in more than 30 companies and raised more than 320 million euros since it was founded in 2012.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 11 Nov. 2025
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The film is set in 1935 Tartu and at the University of Tartu, where, a year earlier, Professor Lazar Gulkowitsch, exiled from Germany, had established a chair of Judaic Studies within the Faculty of Philosophy.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Nov. 2025
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While proponents of wearable technology in prisons and jails have described it as potentially lifesaving, privacy rights groups and even law enforcement officials say the devices can raise ethical and legal concerns and urge agencies to establish strict rules on data use, retention and consent.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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His early contributions included work on market-leading data protection products used by Fortune 500 companies (including PGP, a pioneering company in encryption technologies) that safeguarded some of the world’s largest enterprises against accidental and directly malicious data loss.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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After a pioneering run building a major pay-TV player in Dish, Ergen steered the company through its recent pivot to the wireless business before stepping back from a day-to-day exec role last year.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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The new foreign media legislation, introduced by Likud lawmaker Ariel Kallner and backed by Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition, would make such powers permanent — even outside times of war or national emergency — and remove the requirement for judicial oversight.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
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Those subsidies, which were introduced during the COVID pandemic, are set to expire at the end of the year and could leave as many as 22 million Americans with significantly higher monthly health insurance premiums if Congress does not extend them.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
11 Nov. 2025
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The species has an adhesive plate on its head that helps to create a kind of vacuum seal, allowing the fish to grab a whale and hang on for the ride.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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Denver International Airport is working to fill in the gap, creating a food pantry for its federal employees and asking the FAA for permission to use the airport's revenue to pay for controllers' wages.—
JOSH FUNK,
Arkansas Online,
8 Nov. 2025
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Quds Force, was initiated at the end of 2024 and was active through the first half of this year, said the official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.—
Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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Elsewhere, Japan, Australia, and France have initiated hypersonic weapon programs with a focus on regional security and allied cooperation.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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The Crisp app launched this month with a library of 20 titles, a mix of Crisp Originals, TopReels and TaleOn Originals, that also includes a selection of the most popular short drama series.—
Partner Content,
Variety,
10 Nov. 2025
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Billboard recently launched in Africa, signaling growing global attention on music scenes outside the West.—
Billboard Japan,
Billboard,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Found.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/found. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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