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
Plato establishes the four virtues upon which the state should be founded: wisdom, courage, discipline, and justice.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
The ceremony took place fifteen miles from Macondo in the shade of a gigantic ceiba tree around which the town of Neerlandia would be founded later.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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