Found and Make up

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Found verb - To be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of.

Usage example: John Harvard did not actually found the university that now bears his name

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Make up and found are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Make up" instead a verb "Found".

Make up verb - To form by putting together parts or materials.

Usage example: we'll have to make up the bookcase, which came in a box marked “some assembly required”

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Found and make up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Found" instead a verb "Make up".

Justified as humans in a similar situation would likely try to lighten the mood to make up for the scenario they've found themselves in.

Source: Visual Novel / Zero Escape
Found Footage Films: The kids are recording their trip and this footage seems to make up most of the film.

Source: Film / The Visit
Even then they were believed to be Seldom-Seen Species only found in hot springs and hydrothermal vents until being found to make up a large portion of the worlds poorly-studied plankton in the late 90's.

Source: Small Taxonomy Pools

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