well-founded

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City beat Sunderland 3-0 at the Etihad Stadium on December 6, but Guardiola predicted a far more difficult encounter in the rematch and his fears proved well founded.

From Barron's • Jan. 1, 2026

Doug Peterson, the former Nebraska attorney general who helped spearhead the GOP’s antitrust strategy, believes the Republican antitrust scrutiny is well founded.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2025

This announcement suggests those doubts were well founded.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2023

Dean's fear that many of the lawyers who aided Nixon would be indicted proved to be well founded.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2023

He must have realized from the beginning that if Venus did have phases, the nature of them would establish whether Ptolemaic astronomy was well founded or not.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton