How native speakers pronounce “able”

the way that they fell in love with Bean, that bird. Our animals would be able to reach millions and millions of people -- without having to meet a single one of them in person.

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

If you're able to, please close your eyes. Take a deep breath in

Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED · TED

So the idea of the pre-mortem is to think ahead of time to the questions that you might be able to ask that will push the conversation forward.

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

but the drone got there in seconds. It was able to find that, unfortunately, there was somebody on the tracks, but because of the drone, they knew exactly where he was.

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

but because of the drone, they knew exactly where he was. They were able to guide in first responders, and they saved this guy's life.

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

Here, there's a stolen vehicle. So they're able to follow the stolen vehicle from the air. They know exactly where he is.

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

but they never actually caught anybody in the act. With the drone, they're able to get this asymmetric advantage. So now he's got stolen plates.

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

How well would this go? Would we be able to handle this? Would we be able to connect, to love,

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

Would we be able to handle this? Would we be able to connect, to love, to parent the stranger we were bringing into our lives

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

that we were seeking in order to then be able to scale this technology. Now we have markets that are closed, markets that are open,

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

our car was traveling 17 miles per hour. And we were able to get to six miles per hour before making contact.

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

is they are driving a lot of job growth as we scale. We’re just too early to be able to really quantify it. But in addition to that, earlier this year,

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

and old ones. So your sleepless brain might be able to regurgitate facts, but you're finding it more difficult to find patterns or problem solve.

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

H.M.'s ability to form new short-term memories was damaged, but he was able to learn physical tasks through repetition. Due to the removal of his hippocampus,

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

So a high IQ does not mean that you're a good leader, because the essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

from a seven-and-a-half- or eight-hour sleep, and have been able to see the big picture. So as we are facing all the multiple crises

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

couples counseling and more. And while I was really grateful to be able to do all of this stuff and all of it helped,

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

Is there any 21st-century skill more important than being able to sustain coherent, confident conversation?" Now, I make my living talking to people:

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

And so I would need to make that effort in order to be able to make friends. But second observation that I have,

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

if we want to connect with people, we have to be able to move away from the part of ourselves that is fearful, that is mistrustful,

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

And we still think you're amazing and we accept that about you, right? We begin to be able to accept it in ourselves and to bring whatever we felt shame about,

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

rather than antithetical to the personality that we want to have. And we are able to sort of relinquish all of the energies that we spend trying to push this thing away.

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

or to help them escape threatening emotions or feelings. So they're able to really humanize other people fully. And the research on securely attached people find,

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

Right? So it's being able to recognize that our friendships ebb and flow. And when we're at an ebb, that doesn't mean,

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

We assume that this ebb is part of the normal process to flow again. So that facilitates us being able to re-engage in the friendship at any time.

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

I loved the camaraderie, the stability, the fact that I was able to look toward my family's future. We had just bought a house.

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

are better at problem-solving, reasoning, logic. They're able to recognize the signs more quickly, and they can course correct more easily.

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

is how I won my first few big contracts. It's how I was able to take that little side hustle and turn it into a thriving business,

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

The more connected I became, the more responsible I felt, the less I was able to let go in your presence. The third child doesn't really come back.

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

it's that real dialectic piece. On the one hand you want the security in order to be able to go. On the other hand if you can't go, you can't have pleasure,

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

and how that impacted people in remote interactions, if it stifled the way people were able to connect. So for my dissertation,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

and we can see each other, we're able to connect in a similar way. Only-audio interactions produce lower-quality connections.

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

it had a tremendous effect on whether they were even able to engage in quality connections. And that does make sense,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

Luckily, she responded to the emergency injection and was able to consume enough calories to bring her blood sugar back up. But of course, this led to a high blood sugar,

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life | TED · TED

I was happy to be social-distancing with my mom. And she was able to lose some weight, even though she sometimes complained that I was acting like the food police.

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life | TED · TED

than white women in the United States, we have been able to describe aspects of the social context that support their success.

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life | TED · TED

based on just my own study and my own learnings that I think will help you be able to bridge some of those connections as we move forward, alright?

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

And access and ease give us power. Something as simple as being able to speak the language of our communities gives us privilege,

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

I get so much value out of this relationship." And it was the willingness of being able to connect across differences that most of us would kind of politely ignore,

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED