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founded

/ˈfaʊndɪd/ adjective B1
  1. Having a basis. · She offered a well-founded hypothesis.
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Matthew Cuthbert’s father, as shy and silent as his son after him, had got as far away as he possibly could from his fellow men without actually retreating into the woods when he founded his homestead.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 3 · C1
As far as I can make out, the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 8 · B2
I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were submitted to him.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 35 · B2
de Boville, “your fears are unfortunately but too well founded, and you see before you a man in despair.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 317 · C1

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