Found
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
Set up
Set up verb - To be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of.
Usage example: set up a scholarship fund for deserving students from the inner city
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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According to Enright in later interviews, Stempel had always been set up right from the start to be an unlikable but seemingly invincible "bad guy" for the audience to root against until Enright found the perfect "good guy" in Van Doren to defeat him.
Source: Film / Quiz Show - The Devil is a gentleman who left Heaven and set up Hell because he found Heaven intolerably boring.
Source: Creator / George Bernard Shaw -
Horatio the First was an androgynous, beauty-obsessed narcissist, left society to set up shop on a planet by himself, where he found Imported Alien Phlebotinum.
Source: Video Game / Endless Space
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