based
adjective
having a specified object or material as its base or foundation or as its primary constituent (often used in combination).
well-based
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a word derived from
based.
Example Sentences
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Hungary’s foreign minister Péter Szijjártó said Hungarian scientists were now trialling the Russian vaccine in laboratories, “so that they’ll be able to make a well-based decision on its possible usability and licensing”.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2020
Don_Bacon I hesitate to say too much because I've been out so long, but this is definitely a well-based set of recommendation with many good features.
From Time ● Jan. 21, 2013
On the well-based belief that Sonja Henie is showing the biggest box-office appeal since Charlie Chaplin, Producer Zanuck has contracted to pay her $125,000 each for next season's three pictures.
From Time Magazine Archive
His talk was fluent, incisive, and put forward without reference to what might be the prejudices or indeed the well-based principles of his listeners.
From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by James Kendall Hosmer
But if his fears were well-based, then he agreed that the soldiers sent were too few.
From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman
