grounded

Example Sentences

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“When leaders clearly make the case grounded in freedom, safety and dignity, voters respond. But when they hedge, it creates a vacuum that bad actors fill.”

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Waqa Blake sent the Bulls ahead but James McDonnell grounded his own kick as Leeds hit back after 25 minutes.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

At the same time, scientists are recognizing the limits of simpler models of early universe expansion, highlighting the need for approaches grounded in fundamental physics.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

“I really love a story that takes something normal and grounded and gives one twist on it that throws you into a different world and makes you see things in a different way,” Boston said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

The new science often presented itself as a system of axioms and demonstrations, in Galileo’s Two New Sciences for example, or Newton’s Principia, but it was always grounded in facts and, less surely, in analogies.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton