founded

[found]

To found something is like laying a "foundation" for a building note the similarity? But instead of a building, you might found a business or a charity, where you establish the groundwork upon which it can grow.

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Adjective S.
having a basis; often used as combining terms; "a soundly based argument"; "well-founded suspicions"


imp. & p. p.
of Found


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Usage Examples

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

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