'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
July 15—1 've been putting off a visit to my mother.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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
“We were still doing everything by hand,” the makeup artist Ve Neill recalled.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2018
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, the three sons of Bor, grew into manhood.
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 webpage says that in addition to such pronouns as he/him, she/her and they, “some people prefer to use gender-neutral pronouns, such as ne, ve, ze/zie and xe.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
First, the greater the exhaust velocity of the gases relative to the rocket, ve , the greater the acceleration is.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
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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