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
Plato establishes the four virtues upon which the state should be founded: wisdom, courage, discipline, and justice.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
If a colony was to be founded, the colonists carried with them coals from the hearth of the mother-city with which to kindle the fire on the new city’s hearth.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
