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# How to pronounce "been right" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/bɪːnræɪt/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **been·right**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "been right" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "I mean, Richard Nixon called Leary the most dangerous man in America. He felt that LSD and other drugs were sapping the will of American boys to fight in Vietnam. And he may well have been right. I mean LSD encourages people to think for themselves, to not accept the frames of social values, the games that we play socially, and in important ways LSD did fuel the counterculture and was very threatening to adult society, and to the powers that be. By the end of the decade, they're made illegal, a schedule one drug beginning in 1970. The research gradually atrophies and dies"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 18:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T0LmbWROKY&t=1119s)

### Example 2
> "eric so how many things has he contributed to and made you know pretty substantive kind of uh paradigm shifts for different people i would say he's been right many times does that mean he's infallible that he's ineffable no of course not for me so what i'm saying is i get a little bit of the joy of kind of learning something purely as a as a scientist something completely outside of what i do mathematics gage theory um the the kind of very um"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 181:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhGwJLXzHs8&t=10865s)

### Example 3
> "Two well first thing I suppose some people will will think oh there's a bit of a danger for Lucy Pal here because as soon as you say Nigel Farage has never been right about anything you're basically sort of insinuating that the people who like Nigel Farage of which there are a lot are also in the wrong too. No, I don't I I don't think that and I know I know loads of people who are either thinking about voting reform or have voted reform and for all sorts"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 21:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd80gfVV2R4&t=1304s)

### Example 4
> "And then the spin-off from that was John Road was also sacked as well. How do you feel about that that process that's been gone through? I think the process has been right and I I think that you all as licensed fee payers would expect the best of the BBC in making sure that when this stuff happens it's tackled and um I you know I have no reason to think they did know about it at the BBC. I think the problem is that sometimes if a production company is very successful"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 25:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO3Fh9Z9oxU&t=1550s)

### Example 5
> "and the KGB and so why don't you just car on with that um but I thought this could be better and you know I think it's the only time in my life when I've been right and everybody else has been wrong but it was a creative risk yes it was oh yes I did take a risk yeah I did take a risk and now that's the one that's sold more than any other copies 29 million I do know the number for that one I'll put I'll put them back because I'm enough of talking about how many"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q1NEmOZdgw&t=333s)

### Example 6
> "impact on our business and in a weird way even a little bit positive so um in terms of the attendance versus our budget and on movies themselves that's been right on course since all the uh Financial issues surfaced um in terms of installs which is putting up new IMAX theaters again right on schedule and then the third thing is really new business activity which you think of anything would suffer that would be because you're going into malls and"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81N_iJLtB4U&t=23s)

### Example 7
> "yeah dramatically well speaking about you know so these low rates have been good for homeowners or anybody who's in the market to buy a house but it's also been right joe very good for the federal government because they've been able to finance their deficit on cheap money yeah well now it's going to be the opposite we're going to be seeing over the next 10 years we have people saying they're going to see about three trillion dollars more interest expense"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6UqN85u1yA&t=117s)

### Example 8
> "lift Europe but it looks like that's fading as well some of the data coming out particularly in the Euro Zone looking a bit softer so we think it's been right to take a little bit of money out of some of the more cyclical areas of the of the European market but you know that said I still think there's a lot of very attractive companies within Europe and and indeed globally which look very appealing on a medium-term view and really we're trying to look"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMBEcxuzSKM&t=67s)

### Example 9
> "I I would I'm sh shocked that I would be either democrat or republican I would vote no I would have voted no in the beginning with Mr Baki Mr Baki has never been right about anything in the last six years that he's been in Washington so there's nothing he's done nothing he could do to redeem himself ahead of this vote this week but resign he's not going to do that he could he could abolish the Federal Reserve then I'd vote for him yes he's not going to do that Kirby what"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQk3cnEqQzU&t=20s)

### Example 10
> "been right so the second statement it's homogeneous everywhere the"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 55:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gRhmeTjadw&t=3357s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [been](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/been), [right](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/right)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "been right" correctly?
"been right" is pronounced `/bɪːnræɪt/`. Syllable breakdown: **been·right**.

### What does "been right" mean in context?
Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "been right" in daily English.

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