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we've

American  
[weev] / wiv /
  1. contraction of we have:

    We've been here for an hour.


we've British  
/ wiːv /

contraction

  1. we have

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Usage

See contraction.

Example Sentences

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We've got a really efficient car, so here at Baku we've been exceptionally fast.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

“Primetime” isn’t a film so much as it is a final exam testing what we’ve learned over the last 20 years.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

“That was the best we’ve seen,” manager Dave Roberts said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

“What we are seeing in Ecuador is unlike anything we’ve seen even during the Cold War,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“How much of us is what we know and what we’ve seen?”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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