they've
Americancontraction
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Example Sentences
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Residents describe the conditions they’ve been living in nearly a month after a fire damaged a cold storage food warehouse in Boyle Heights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
While there isn't a check list for employers, lawyers stress that they have to be able to justify why they're saying no to something, and show they've looked at alternative options.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
“The Iranians may be less willing to engage diplomatically because they’ve been burned several times in the past,” she said.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
The fact that they’ve moved up together “marks a period of extremely aggressive buying, culminating in a parabolic uptrend,” Adam Turnquist, chief market strategist at LPL Financial, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
The position of German forces, how many planes they’ve got at different airfields, targets they plan to hit, that sort of thing.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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