Discovered
Discovered adjective - Discovered or determined by scientific observation.
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Founded and discovered are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Founded" instead a verb "Discovered".
Founded
Discovered and founded are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Discovered" instead a verb "Founded".
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- Parts of The Book of Dave by Will Self take place in a flooded out England five hundred years after the titular book is discovered and a religion is founded on it.
Source: After The End / Literature - Even at the very start it is revealed that Ryan founded his empire on oil which he discovered purely by luck, even though he is so insistent on self-sufficiency.
Source: Literature / BioShock: Rapture -
The three people who founded Fashion Sun Fabrics Limited discovered a way to make yellow scarves that cause anyone who dies while wearing them to come back to life as zombie-like creatures.
Source: Necromancer
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