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Definition of "we're" []

  • Contraction of we are.

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "we're" in a sentence
  • "In many ways, this is a distinction without a difference, though I suppose it now makes a lot of his new demonstrations of Catholic conversion to be ... well, I suppose the phrase we're using these days is, "pious bologna.""
  • "Leroy: Of course it comes from crippled, but for disabled artists and scholars, it's a word we're taking back."
  • ""If you send me your husband's resume I'd be interested in finding out exactly what's happening right there because the word we're getting is that somebody in that kind of hi-tech field, that kind of engineer, should be able to find something right away," he said."