INSTITUTER Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

instituter

noun

variants or institutor

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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Noun

Our first person in the spotlight this week is Jeff Bezos, founder of the American private spaceflight company Blue Origin.

— , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Brian Hoerl, Phoenix’s co-founder and chief growth officer, said the engineers faced a problem without a clear playbook.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of founder

Noun

Throughout the first season of Furious, creator Elizabeth Meriwether and company deftly explored the idea of female vengeance, all while making Catherine into a kind of antihero for the ages.

— Erin Qualey, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2026
Visual art pieces will come from Sacramento-area creators like Taner Pasamehmetoglu, Jason Silva, Ginger Thompson, Raul Mejia and second-generation neon sign artist Melissa Uroff.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2026

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Nuclear Children follows 18-year-old Isla Sparrow who, after the death of her father in a submarine accident, hopes to escape her grieving family and flee to university.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2026
In the story, Ejva inherits her father’s reindeer herd following his sudden death.

— Marta Balaga, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of father

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The authors noted that skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis and contact dermatitis can appear in the perianal region, where bidet use may help.

— Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2026
The authors describe that interpretation as hypothesis-generating and in need of further study.

— Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

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Opponents of the ban point to the fact that prominent founding fathers, including George Washington, had successful distilleries on their homesteads.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026
The Wiener Werkstätte’s undue obscurity may have something to do with not only those epistolary expressions of skepticism by the founding fathers of the Frankfurt School, but also Hoffmann’s latter-day Nazism, which in this show goes unmentioned.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 Aug. 2026

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