be founded
Example Sentences
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"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
Plato establishes the four virtues upon which the state should be founded: wisdom, courage, discipline, and justice.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
