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well-founded

[wel-foun-did] / ˈwɛlˈfaʊn dɪd /


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Well-founded privacy fears could hinder its advance, or the technology could hit roadblocks on the path to conversational fluency.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2019

Well-founded or not, these truisms drive production of trade history books.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2016

Well-founded is the rumor that next season the Metropolitan may merge with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well-founded rumors of radicalism among WPA artists and authors had long irked the legislators.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well-founded institutions, of large and solid capital, have, in general, comparatively little circulation; while weak corporations almost invariably seek to sustain themselves by obtaining from the people the largest possible credit in this form.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various