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The phrase "were grounded in" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that something is based on or established in a particular principle, idea, or fact. Example: "The theories presented in the paper were grounded in extensive research and empirical evidence."
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The legends about Mr. Trout's resourcefulness were grounded in reality.
Like college editorialists everywhere, Chairman Lieberman's opinions were grounded in a solemn certitude, unalloyed by ambiguity.
Legal experts said the complaints were grounded in well-established international law.
All 50 of the 787s delivered so far were grounded in mid-January.
Thank heavens the models were grounded in thick sandwich-sole shoes.
Mr. Close's experiments were grounded in slapstick farce, lowbrow vaudeville corn and controlled spontaneity.
All Concordes were grounded in July 2000 when one crashed in a suburb of Paris, killing 113 people.
Molson Coors's CSR standards were grounded in the values and business environment of its host countries – Canada and the US.
At once discursive and concrete, he only liked "exploring ideas if they were grounded in everyday experience".
Cast as the secret memoirs of Claudius himself, they were grounded in exhaustive scholarship but imbued with a novelist's imagination.
Instead, the two defendants were depicted as upstanding, hardworking portfolio managers whose investments were grounded in legitimate research.
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