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past participle of be.

Can be confused: bean, been, Ben, bin.

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Stories of crimes and dangerous behavior, mostly anecdotal, have been used as fuel by those who say the protesters must go.

Librarians have been saying they want and need to buy more scholarly monographs in electronic format.

But, overall, the emerging world will be less of a buoy to global growth than it has been hitherto.

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Stories of crimes and dangerous behavior, mostly anecdotal, have been used as fuel by those who say the protesters must go.

Librarians have been saying they want and need to buy more scholarly monographs in electronic format.

But, overall, the emerging world will be less of a buoy to global growth than it has been hitherto.

The belief that animals can predict earthquakes has been around for centuries.

There have been a lot of public attacks on women lately and calls to discuss those attacks.

America's first permanent colonists have long been considered lazy and incompetent.

The system should be installed after the lawn area has been graded.

Phantogram has always been bigger than the sum of its parts.

The normally wide, traffic-choked streets lined with neem trees have been unexpectedly clear.

Guskiewicz is one researcher who has been at the vanguard of efforts to better understand the complicated nature of concussions.

Polls taken long before a presidential election have been wrong before.

Only a handful of wild animal species have been successfully bred to get along with humans.

Having a mixed up body clock has been linked to a vast array of ailments, including obesity and bipolar disorder.

And for decades it's only been available in black-and-white copies.

Even if you haven't been on the water before, you can start sailing by easing into it.

The altered arrangement, however, has not been tested in court.

After seven days in hiding, the snake has been caught, the zoo's director said.

Global university ranking has become a common phenomenon, but the results have been mixed at the best.

Divers have been used to salvage valuable equipment from submerged plants.

The site may have been built, filled in, and built again for centuries.

It's been found that lower salt levels can only be attained by governments forcing manufacturers to comply.

The scene is a sheriff's office near a mountain lake, where a hunter and his dog have been found dead.

So, our feathers have been ruffled lately by a nagging fear that one of our pullets is a rooster.

Evidence for the two elements has been mounting for years.

Haiti has been down this road before, with disastrous results.

Cities have always been at the center of economic growth and technological advances.

Your hair contains a record of everywhere you've been.

Otherwise it's been really interesting reading you guyses' perspectives and experiences.

Kitty, our bunny whisperer, has been busy raising rabbits for the feast.

He's a dad of two boys and has been a reporter since the manual typewriter days.

Italy has been making an effort to exploit the renewable sources found within its borders.

The monkey species usually lives in an undisturbed stretch of forest and has not been studied in the wild.

There have been areas in the crust wherein fission have occurred resulting in strong evidence of this process but it is rare.

Not much has been said, though, about our own slaveholding past.

They're made with the same plants we've been ignoring.

At that point, the initial features were well-established and initial funding had been raised.

Yet for the best of author's knowledge, male organ has not been touched in the growth literature before.

Mother birds will reject their babies if they've been touched by humans.

If they had been at home, or worked at typical workplace in the city, they likely would have been killed.

But over the centuries, they have been the subjects of much speculation.

Recently, however, crockpots have in some important ways been reinvented.

It's not the first time the lab has been breached through spear phishing.

Rules on reporting catches and banning spotter planes have been flouted too.

The energy of that moving water can be substantial, as anyone who has been whitewater rafting knows.

So the entire extraterrestrial hypothesis is based on the residue of data after the above list has been exhausted.

Then you notice that there's been a huge amount of change due to the logging industry.

Has been largely replaced in garden cultu more add to my plant list.

One local official in charge of resettlement has been murdered.

Just my impression: there've been loads of such supposedly predictive systems over past centuries.

The skull had been given a plaster nose, and its eye sockets had been filled with plaster.

Natural turkeys have been minimally processed, with no artificial ingredients or coloring added.

Alligator gars are also targeted by both commercial and sport fisheries and have frequently been overfished.

It has been reported that by the end of the century, redheads will be extinct.

Once the flowers have been pollinated, they fade to green, then handsome seed pods form and new bright green leaves emerge.

No supervolcano has erupted in recorded human history, but geologists have pieced together what an explosion must have been like.

They should have been viewed as great leaders of their time to the people in their society.

In the process, they created the illusion that the house had been built in a park.

Monster-size squid that glow in the dark have been filmed for the first time in the wild.

It had been printed on several sheets, the author noted, suggesting that it was unusually large.

The germination rate has been excellent for one thing with hardly any effort on my part.

To some eyes, this weathered structure would have been a teardown.

Try richer soil next time and/or harvest earlier if you think either may have been the problem.

And typically, my winter squash vine would've been long dead by now.

Conventional wisdom has always been that the alcohol evaporates and is therefore eliminated.

And daisy-flowered mums have been introduced in colors that range from deep ruby red to amber.

It has not been a good year for economic policy, at home or abroad.

The letter was intended to clear up concerns over the regulations that have been particularly controversial:.

The brain holds on to false facts, even after they have been retracted.

Why dinosaurs originated in the first place, however, has been a much trickier subject to tackle.

But only recently have students been armed with what might be the ultimate.

The best you can say is that things could have been worse.

The post has been updated to reflect this correction.

But there has been a crucial difference in the approach taken by the two schools of researchers.

No living male had been observed alive in the wild before.

Stimulating the immune system to destroy tumor cells has long been a hope-but judging from past studies, perhaps a dashed one.

He's spent his life chasing a sea monster that's never been taken alive.

Super high-resolution spy satellites have been imaging sea ice at the poles for the last decade on behalf of earth scientists.

Tell us if the snow has been cleared on your street.

I've been impervious to student whining, to department politics, to research agendas that do.

Much good land has already been grabbed, and the new law will merely protect the grabbers' gains.

Subjects who thought their putter had been owned by a pro golfer putted better than others using the same putter without.

Every month multiple new, interesting discoveries have been announced that either introduce us to new dinosaurs or tell us.

The seeds have been planted for a tremendous upheaval in the material world of publishing.

There have always been barriers in real estate, lines that certain buyers will not cross.

It's awkward to go about your normal teaching-and-research business on a campus once you have been denied tenure.

They had been dragged into conflict in various ways.

Prior to this finding, all the other great apes had been observed using tools.

The claim that neutrinos can travel faster than light has been given a knock by an independent experiment.

Lockheed hasn't always been so focused on cyber security or had much of a track record in keeping its own systems secure.

The facts are that divorce is down, and today's marriages are more stable than they have been in decades.

Subsequently the concept has been embraced and expanded by leaders at major statewide university systems and flagship campuses.

In some places these broader trends have been reinforced with local changes, such as requiring bars to close earlier.

Psychodynamic therapy has been caricatured as navel-gazing, but studies show powerful benefits.

His professional life, he says, has been a single-minded quest for true ecological sustainability.

Washington has been obsessing over deficits and debt ceilings while the economy crumbles.

Merged groups of language departments have been longstanding.

But there have been accidents, and mistrust has been sown as the industrial.

I've been researching old-time brothels, and it turns out that they were lovely places.

Over the years, plans and preparations have been streamlined to accommodate tight schedules.

But no one has been able to triangulate exactly where the broadcast is coming from.

We might not get the raises we've already been awarded, but don't start until.

Oil dispersants have been available to combat spills since the mid-1980s.

There have been rumblings from residents and scientists alike that.

Did you know there's a name for that wonderful smell you get when the first raindrops hit earth that has been dry for.

The sensation of flavor has until recently been one of nature's more arcane secrets.

The officials would have multiplied at the same rate had there been no actual seamen at all.

Just a month earlier, two females and an infant from another gorilla group had been attacked.

Senior citizens may have been the secret of our species's success.

September has been a good month for troodontid dinosaurs.

Of late, a number of spice companies have been covering their jars with lids that grind.

But in recent years progress has been made in parsing out its complex and often.

All this has meant that legislators have been left with ever less discretion over their budgets.

Dams have been designed for river flows that will soon no longer apply, according to new research.

The fact the a new dinosaur species has been named on the basis of a juvenile skeleton impression is unusual.

Toothsome and satisfying, brown rice is rice that hasn't been messed with.

Chinook has been competing for checkers championships for years.

Louis say that a labor-studies instructor who had been videotaped purportedly advocating union.

It has been big, yes, perhaps a lot bigger than industry experts originally expected or were willing to admit.

The bullying has long been part of life for many climate scientists.

But the relationship between humans and cave bears has been mysterious.

Crisp-fried chicken tacos have been the party entrée of choice here for almost a decade.

Additionally, the employee had attached a sensitive file to the e-mail that should not have been sent at all.

I've always been indecisive, the kind of person who takes forever to reach a decision and then questions the hell out of.

Eating a diet of meat from corn-fed animals hasn't been linked to any specific health effects in humans.

Great sharks blacktips, great whites and other species longer than six feet have been hunted almost to extinction in places.

Recently, though, the historic downtown district has been revitalized with antiques shops.

Since big orange cat's check up, there's been a little scab with a teensy bit of blood attached to it on the cyst.

Coming home however he discovered that the robot had been saved and his wife was taken by the fire.

The sovereign's life has not been a happy one the past few centuries, and the march of popular culture is the culprit.

However, when the produce has been treated with pesticides, cleaner is better.

Sonic blasters and private security teams have been billed as some of the best bets to ward off pirates.

Academic freedom has been pushed to the front burner in higher education.

Though diamonds are nothing more than carbon crystals, the sparkly rocks have been idolized as symbols of wealth and power for.

My friends and colleagues have been quick to absolve me of any responsibility for coming up short.

The deadliest flu strain in history has been resurrected.

All sorts of dictionaries have been written, trying to capture the accent and its spelling.

They make great gifts and indoor decorations during the winter when they've been forced into bloom, but with.

Next time you find yourself in a bad mood, don't try to put on a happy face-instead tackle a project that has been stymieing you.

We had been spending too much time in crowded, confined, urban places.

Paleo-Anthropology has now been reduced to the same guessing game as weathermen.

It could have been the premiere of a summer blockbuster.

It is less about being about been able to control information about oneself, or about being left alone.

Once you lay eyes on your cute little cottage that's been rescued from a shuttered sugarcane plantation, spruced up, and set.

Photosynthetic algae have been found inside the cells of a vertebrate for the first time.

It has been a running joke in the neighborhood, but they succeeded at last.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used without object)

to exist or live: Shakespeare's “To be or not to be” is the ultimate question.

to take place; happen; occur: The wedding was last week.

to occupy a place or position: The book is on the table.

to continue or remain as before: Let things be.

to belong; attend; befall: May good fortune be with you.

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(used as a copula to connect the subject with its predicate adjective, or predicate nominative, in order to describe, identify, or amplify the subject): Martha is tall. John is president. This is she.

(used as a copula to introduce or form interrogative or imperative sentences): Is that right? Be quiet! Don't be facetious.

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auxiliary verb

(used with the present participle of another verb to form the progressive tense): I am waiting.

(used with the present participle or infinitive of the principal verb to indicate future action): She is visiting there next week. He is to see me today.

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(used with the past participle of another verb to form the passive voice): The date was fixed. It must be done.

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(used in archaic or literary constructions with some intransitive verbs to form the perfect tense): He is come. Agamemnon to the wars is gone.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English been, Old English bēon (bēo- (akin to Old Frisian, Old High German bim, German bin, Old Saxon bium, biom (I) am, Old English, Old High German, Old Saxon būan, Old Norse būa reside, Latin fuī (I) have been, Greek phy- grow, become, Old Irish boí (he) was, Sanskrit bhávati (he) becomes, is, Lithuanian búti to be, OCS byti, Persian būd was)) + -n infinitive suffix. See am, is, are¹, was, were

Can be confused: be, bee.

Usage note
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World English Dictionary

been (biːn, bɪn)

—vb
	the past participle of be

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Word Origin & History

O.E. beon, beom, bion "be, exist, come to be, become," from P.Gmc. *beo-, *beu-. This "b-root" is from PIE base *bheu-, *bhu- "grow, come into being, become," and in addition to the words in English it yielded German present first and second person sing. (bin, bist, from O.H.G. bim "I am," bist "thou

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art"), L. perf. tenses of esse (fui "I was," etc.), O.C.S. byti "be," Gk. phu- "become," O.Ir. bi'u "I am," Lith. bu'ti "to be," Rus. byt' "to be," etc. It also is behind Skt. bhavah "becoming," bhavati "becomes, happens," bhumih "earth, world."

The modern verb in its entirety represents the merger of two once-distinct verbs, the "b-root" represented by be and the am/was verb, which was itself a conglomerate. Roger Lass ("Old English") describes the verb as "a collection of semantically related paradigm fragments," while Weekley calls it "an accidental conglomeration from the different Old English dial[ect]s." It is the most irregular verb in Mod.E. and the most common. Collective in all Germanic languages, it has eight different forms in Modern English:

BE (infinitive, subjunctive, imperative)
AM (present 1st person singular)
ARE (present 2nd person singular and all plural)
IS (present 3rd person singular)
WAS (past 1st and 3rd persons singular)
WERE (past 2nd person singular, all plural; subjunctive)
BEING (progressive & present participle; gerund)
BEEN (perfect participle).

The paradigm in O.E. was:

	SING.	PL.
1st pres.	ic eom ic beo	we sind(on) we beoð
2nd pres.	þu eart þu bist	ge sind(on) ge beoð
3rd pres.	he is he bið	hie sind(on) hie beoð
1st pret.	ic wæs	we wæron
2nd pret.	þu wære	ge waeron
3rd pret.	heo wæs	hie wæron
1st pret. subj.	ic wære	we wæren
2nd pret. subj.	þu wære	ge wæren
3rd pret. subj.	Egcferð wære	hie wæren

The "b-root" had no past tense in O.E., but often served as future tense of am/was. In 13c. it took the place of the infinitive, participle and imperative forms of am/was. Later its plural forms (we beth, ye ben, they be) became standard in M.E. and it made inroads into the singular (I be, thou beest, he beth), but forms of are claimed this turf in the 1500s and replaced be in the plural. For the origin and evolution of the am/was branches of this tangle, see am and was.

"That but this blow Might be the be all, and the end all." ["Macbeth" I.vii.5]

been

pp. of be. Dismissive slang phrase been there, done that attested from 1994 (been there "had the experience," usually of something disreputable, is from 1880s).

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Medical Dictionary

Be
The symbol for the element beryllium.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

beryllium (bə-rĭl'ē-əm) Pronunciation Key
Symbol Be
A hard, lightweight, steel-gray metallic element of the alkaline-earth group, found in various minerals, especially beryl. It has a high melting point and is corrosion-resistant. Beryllium is used to make sturdy, lightweight alloys and aerospace structural materials. It is also used as a neutron moderator in nuclear reactors. Atomic number 4; atomic weight 9.0122; melting point 1,278°C; boiling point 2,970°C; specific gravity 1.848; valence 2. See Periodic Table.

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