been
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verb
Example Sentences
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Even the White House still has a statement on its website dated 25 June 2025 under the headline 'Iran's Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated – and Suggestions Otherwise are Fake News.'
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
According to the website Have I Been Pwned, which tracks data breaches and users affected by them, the incident occurred in November, sweeping up 72 million email addresses.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 22, 2026
Appeared in the January 10, 2026, print edition as 'For the Bean King of America, Business Has Never Been Better'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026
Who were you thinking about when you wrote the reggae part in “Life’s Been Good”? Bob Marley in “Stir It Up.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
It was here that he made his famous “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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