be founded
Example Sentences
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“But I don’t believe any state should be founded and centered upon an ethnic or religious identity.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
"If there was an illiquidity premium, it has to be disclosed and it has to be founded in empirical evidence."
From Reuters ● May 5, 2023
It said the nine-member board had come to a unanimous conclusion that the prosecutors' allegations "did not appear to be founded" and that the club had always acted correctly.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2022
He supported socialist economic policies, opposed segregation, threw his clout behind peace activism and openly called for Israel to be founded and show respect for Arabs.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2021
His shifgrethor must be founded, and composed, and sustained, altogether differently from ours; and when I thought myself most blunt and frank with him he may have found me most subtle and unclear.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
