has foundered
- present perfect of founder (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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And for decades, every attempt to create legal access has foundered on the rocky shoals of property rights and lumbering bureaucracy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2025
But long-held hopes for an undersea tunnel to Japan have gone nowhere and a plan for the city to unite administratively with its neighboring provinces has foundered.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2023
The Shoah Museum project was launched in 2007, but has foundered over funding, a location and even reluctance to highlight the role of Italy’s fascist government as a perpetrator in the Holocaust.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
Some Chinese analysts have been blunt in their views of how Russia has foundered.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2023
"I saw in the newspaper this morning," I repeat, "that H.M.S. —— has foundered with all hands."
From A Lame Dog's Diary by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)
