be founded
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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
Any settlement must be founded on love and respect: love and respect for LGBTQ+ people and their families within and beyond the Church, love and respect for those who take different views.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2022
So it's always a big deal when cracks appear in the granite upon which West Point claims to be founded.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 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
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