've
contraction of have:
've
1 American
Ve
2
American
[ve]
/ vɛ /
noun
Scandinavian Mythology.
've
1
British
contraction
ve
2
British
abbreviation
Usage
See contraction.
Example Sentences
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"From the videos that I 've seen, it looked like kids at a snowball fight," Mamdani said.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
The “7” in the new album title stands for the seven members, the seven years they ‘ve been together. In some way that I don’t understand, it’s considered a “reboot.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
I 've witnessed a good father and husband.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2018
You 've been checked at every point you raised.
From Economist ● Nov. 27, 2012
“They 've got to give me something. Oh please, doctor, give me enough to do some good!”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
At the Museo Jumex in Mexico City, a retrospective of his work, “Lari Pittman: Lo Que Se Ve, Se Pregunta,” will be on view through Feb. 26.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
Thursday on Instagram, Wilson posted a photo with her girlfriend, Agruma, a Los Angeles-based fashion and jewelry designer known for her casual Lemon Ve Limon clothing line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2022
Botham credits makeup designer Ve Neill for placing a special fastener on the back of Reubens’s neck, smoothing out extra skin and leaving less work for postproduction.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2016
As played by Eddie Marsan, he was a scourge of received wisdom and apathy who was wont to say things such as: "Ve are vinning ze battle of ze buttock."
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2012
Odin and Vili and Ve knew that a world is not a world until it is inhabited.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
Carbona remade BioLife into AveXis: Av for adeno-associated virus serotype 9, the engine of Kaspar’s drug; ve for vector; X for the DNA helix; and Is for Isis, the goddess of children, nature and magic.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2025
Oy ve Otesi, an NGO promoting democratic participation, said a scheme it backed to help voters get home for election day had provided 30,000 bus tickets since late April.
From Reuters ● May 14, 2023
The families of two people who died ha ve settled wrongful death lawsuits they filed.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
“I know it’s totally unoriginal but you ve never been and I love that I get to show you Paris!”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Sasha explained that there were other choices besides he and she, choices like it, or they, or more recently invented gender-neutral pronouns like ne, ve, and ze or xe.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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