be founded

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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

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

So much of these feelings of luck and survivor's remorse occur because, while America may be founded on a Judeo-Christian belief system, there is one deity nearly all of us relate to: television.

From Salon • May 17, 2021

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