founding fathers

plural of founding father

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Recent Examples of founding fathers No, January 6 was a day our founding fathers would have been standing shoulder to shoulder with us. Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 Our founding fathers enshrined freedom of speech in the First Amendment, not the second or the 10th, but the first. Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025 This is the oldest bar in the city and was once the watering hole for the founding fathers, including George Washington. Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025 Mandato cited writings of several founding fathers, including John Adams, Daniel Webster and John Witherspoon, who argued the country's constitutional system cannot endure without a moral and religious population, and Christian principals are conducive to good citizenship. Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Sep. 2025 That’s the way the founding fathers intended it. Mark Waller, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025 That’s essentially what happened in the American Revolution, most of the founding fathers were of the wealthiest echelons of the colonies. Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025 In fact, Leticia was established by the Peruvian military in the 1800s and takes its name from the girlfriend of one of its founding fathers. John Otis, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025 More than a month after his death, Ozzy Osbourne’s music has largely slipped away from the Billboard charts following the headline-grabbing news that one of rock’s founding fathers had passed away. Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for founding fathers
Noun
  • Matthew and Theresa Lyson, husband and wife and co-founders of the nonprofit Michigan Duck Rescue and Sanctuary in Washtenaw County's Salem Township, have also each been charged with six misdemeanor counts related to operating as a rehabilitator of migratory waterfowl without proper licensure.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Several women founders have privately supported the idea.
    Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The evening drew Hollywood’s established and emerging talent alongside Los Angeles‘ top content creators, including Tracee Ellis Ross, Lakeith Stanfield, Adrien Brody, Maude Apatow, Madelaine Petsch, Ava Phillippe, Alexandra Shipp, Jurnee Smollett, Ashley Benson, Emma Brooks and Aimee Song.
    Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Working double duty as stars and creators, Hadel voices Charlie, a bro-ish yellow blob creature, and Cusack voices Pim, a well-mannered chap who looks like a cross between a school boy and a grape.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The new season, which marks the first under iHeartMedia and Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network, will go beyond the original premise of interviewing famous fathers.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
  • What YouTube and these social platforms have done is allow people to create entire media groups speaking to very particular communities—to South Asian women or, say, gay fathers over forty.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The study authors looked at 13 samples and found no traces of typhus, but their work does not discredit the findings of the 2006 study, the researchers noted.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • As this heatwave persisted, the authors tracked the health of 52,356 wild and restored Acropora coral colonies across the 350-mile length of Florida's coral reef.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Founding fathers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/founding%20fathers. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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