- [uncountable] existence
- The Irish Free State came into being in 1922.
- A new era was brought into being by the war.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + being- be brought into
- come into
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- [countable] a living creature
- human beings
- a strange being from another planet
- No living being deserves to be treated this way.
Extra ExamplesTopics Biologyb2- I work on the assumption that people are rational beings.
- Dolphins are highly intelligent beings.
- They claim to have proof that alien beings have landed on Earth.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- human
- living
- intelligent
- …
- [uncountable] (formal) your mind and all of your feelings
- I hated him with my whole being.
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