How native speakers pronounce “concept”

death was a useful but purely intellectual concept no one wants to die even people who want to go to heaven don't want to

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

My guess is, for many of you, drone is a scary concept. It might evoke images of weapons in Ukraine,

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

But there's another layer to why we define stuff as gross. As humans, we've sort of extended the concept of disgust to morality. So, the psychologist Paul Rozin would say

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

So what should we tell single people rather than "get married?" Let's start by expanding the concept of significant other. It originally included family and deep friendships,

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

that you shared in "The Atlantic" where you talked about the concept of super friends. So what makes someone a super friend,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

of our free choice, of our preferences, of our identity -- desire that has become a central concept as part of modern love and individualistic societies.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED