well-supported
Britishadjective
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having good physical support
a sofa in which your back is well supported
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having a lot of support or encouragement
friendly matches were less well supported
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substantially upheld by evidence or facts
many well-supported theories
Example Sentences
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Gold is well-supported by robust investment flows and sustained central-bank buying, he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
Based on a biography by Glenn Stout that contains some pretty provocative and reasonably well-supported theories about the ups and downs of her career, this Disney movie runs with those theories hard.
From New York Times • May 30, 2024
Not coincidentally, Quattrini and Catherine McFadden with Harvey Mudd College had completed an extremely detailed, well-supported evolutionary tree of the octocorals in 2022.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2024
"The future of midwifery" is how her boss described Phoebe, who says she has got her dream career and feels very well-supported as a newly-qualified midwife.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2024
And this, too, is an answer to the splendid and well-supported hypothesis of its being a translation from a Chaldaic original, composed by Jerubbabel.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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