be founded

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“Like the ordinary municipal laws, it may be founded upon our consent or that of our representatives; but it derives its ultimate obligatory force as a law, and not as a compact.”

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2023

"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

Allensworth, the state’s first town to be founded by Black Americans, is a predominantly Latino community.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 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

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