be founded

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“But I don’t believe any state should be founded and centered upon an ethnic or religious identity.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2024

"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

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

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

His shifgrethor must be founded, and composed, and sustained, altogether differently from ours; and when I thought myself most blunt and frank with him he may have found me most subtle and unclear.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin