How to Use been around in a Sentence

been around

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  • Pasta salad is always a must at the potluck, and this one has been around for a very long time.
    — Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 2 July 2026
  • Keyboard warriors who mean nothing, and have been around since the dawn of social media, are now the focus.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
  • The company’s food policies have reportedly been around for more than a decade.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 1 July 2026
  • Sauced, which has been around since 2020, has built a faithful following in the Crossroads.
    — Jenna Thompson july 3, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2026
  • The Slushi has been around for a couple years, and its popularity remains high (perhaps only to be outdone by the brand’s Creami).
    — Melissa Knific, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 July 2026
  • France’s national health ministry said Sunday that there had been around 1,000 more deaths in the week before than expected in the country amid its record-smashing heat wave.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 1 July 2026
  • Before Brown invented the Steadicam, about the only way to create a smooth moving shot on a film was to use a dolly, a technology that had been around since the early days of filmmaking but required heavy track that could only be laid so far.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 2 July 2026
  • Cargo theft has been around for centuries, evident for example in the train robbers of the late 1800s, but soaring demand for AI hardware has shifted heist targets to data centers and the technology’s ever-expanding infrastructure.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 3 July 2026
  • By 1776, Sir Isaac Newton's laws of motion had been around for about 89 years since the publication of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) in 1687.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 July 2026

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