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there's been

there's been is the singular present perfect of there be.

Meaning of there be

Verb

there be (highly irregular; see conjugation table)

  1. Of the specified thing: to exist, physically or abstractly.
    • Let there be light.
    Synonyms:
    there exist

Forms of there's been

alternative formthere has been

Questions about there's been

What is there's been the singular present perfect of?
There's been is the singular present perfect of there be.

Words near there's been in the dictionary

  1. there's a sucker born every minute
  2. there's a thought
  3. there's a time and a place for everything
  4. there's a time and place for everything
  5. there's always a bigger fish
  6. there's been
  7. there's been an accident
  8. there's life in the old dog yet
  9. there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
  10. there's many a slip between the cup and the lip
  11. there's many a slip twixt cup and lip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: there's been (page history and authors); there be (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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