founding father
Britishnoun
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This was radical stuff in 1776, when Abigail Adams, the redoubtable wife of John, the founding father and future president, was pleading with her husband to “remember the ladies.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
The setting is Vienna in 1924 and Günter’s analyst is also his professor and the founding father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Ghana's government has removed the name of a coup leader, who helped overthrow founding father Kwame Nkrumah exactly 60 years ago, from the country's main airport.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
Dawn newspaper - the oldest in Pakistan, founded in 1941 by the country's founding father, Muhammad Ali Jinnah - has taken a financial hit for its reporting.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
In scientific terms, though, Tyson is regarded as the founding father of comparative anatomy, which looks at the physical relationships between different species.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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