have got

idiom

: have
used in present tense situations usually in informal writing and in ordinary speech.
I sent the package to him yesterday. I hope he has got it.
It's getting late. We've got to go.

Examples of have got in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Well, the 49ers have got a Pro Bowl quarterback in a record-setting Purdy, and a tremendous supporting cast that is healthy and hungry. Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024 Harry Potter’s eight movies must have got a lot of clicks. Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024 And Democrats and Republicans have got to come together to make sure that doesn't happen. CBS News, 26 Nov. 2023 Look, this is the reality of this conflict, is that people in Gaza have got nowhere to go. ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023 But in order to achieve that, Republicans have got to work with Democrats. Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 18 Oct. 2023 Those figures have got worse every month through July, now prompting the National Bureau of Statistics to halt the release of data, and Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping’s associates moved to allay internal misgivings about the state of the Chinese economy. Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2023 And there have got to be some corporate bean counters grousing about the new corporate minimum tax that the law imposes. Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2023 But few people have got to see as much of them as today's guest, Emily Pennington, a regular Conde Nast Traveler contributor and author who set herself a task at the start of 2020 that was, well, quite daunting. Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Mar. 2023

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“Have got.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/have%20got. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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