INSTITUTOR Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

instituter

noun

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Definition of instituter

as in founder

a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor Eli Whitney is known as the instituter of the American system of manufacture on account of his pioneering concept of the mass production of interchangeable parts

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Swinehart left his role as founder of Project 658, a nonprofit that provides sustainable, holistic care to refugees resettling in the Charlotte area, to join Charlotte FC.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026
Co-founder Emma Thackray started the company in her kitchen in 2019, selling at markets in the north of England.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 18 July 2026

Definition of founder

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Co-chair Emily Ladau, a disability rights activist, communications strategist and author, framed the committee's work around a phrase long used as a rallying cry in disability advocacy circles.

— Keely Cat-Wells, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
The authors evaluated decades of research on who is at highest risk of drowning and what interventions have been shown to save lives.

— Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 18 July 2026

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But some of the most poignant narratives come from Trojan women like Creusa, wife of Aeneas who escapes Troy and becomes a founding father for Rome, and Hector’s wife, Andromache, who is taken as a war captive by Achilles’s son.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
In 1980, the founding father of pediatric exercise medicine, the Canadian Israeli physician Oded Bar-Or, laid out the case that kids might be uniquely vulnerable to overheating.

— Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 11 July 2026

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