How native speakers pronounce “across”

buy food with and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hari

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

I have raised over $7.5 million for conservation causes across the globe. (Applause)

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

They are just normal people, internet users who stumbled across our content in one of their many, many feeds.

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

or adjust so you’re sitting just right. Next time you stumble across a great song that you haven’t heard in a while.

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

it was around midnight in the dead of Montreal winter, I had been visiting my friend, Jeff, across town, and the thermometer on the front porch read minus 40 degrees --

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

And this concept of drone as first responder is taking off across the country. So it started with a few agencies.

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

Nothing in their history enables them to escape the mechanized killing. Their fleets move like cities across the high seas, taking and marketing wildlife.

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

Too many thirtysomethings and fortysomethings look at themselves, and at me, sitting across the room, and say about their 20s,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

Mission Blue is partnering with the Polynesian voyagers, with Nainoa Thompson and those who travel across the Pacific in traditional voyaging canoes

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

The head of the octopus is in French Polynesia, but the arms extend to islands across the Pacific to Hope Spots that have been established in recent years.

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

A three-year expedition is currently, right now, underway to connect people across the Pacific with ancient values of ocean care and respect.

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

one good TED Talk, can have an enormous effect across years and even generations to come. So here's an idea worth spreading

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

But when everything moved online, teens across the developed world lost most of those bonding experiences.

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

It's something we see over and over again in varying shades and magnitudes across different contexts that vary a little bit across people -- but that consistent signal is there.

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

I don't want to waste your flower. If you want to do this, go across the street and talk to Connie. She loves flowers."

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

So that's what I did. I went across and knocked on Connie's door. And she was so happy to see me.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

is you're going to make 20 of these, put them on porches all across America, and it won't take long

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

is a matter of public policy. Across the country, many schools are starting around 7:30 a.m. or earlier, despite the fact that major medical organizations recommend

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

Two of those seconds were the decision. The rest of it is the equivalent of walking across your house to flip a light switch.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

but because that particular advantage, pattern recognition across vast data and breadth of knowledge, is now available to anyone.

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

thousands and thousands of comments, all across the internet, discussing this blissful sensation.

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

even if it means risking their lives. Across the country today, they are listening to lessons on the radio,

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

His best friend, who he had known since high school, who had moved across the country to be near him, to live with him, in fact.

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

and it's getting great results. We can roll it out across the company next year, but in order to do that,

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

And I had this moment where I realized that positive feedback can come across as lazy feedback. It can come across as disengaged feedback.

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

that positive feedback can come across as lazy feedback. It can come across as disengaged feedback. And so if we want to change this culture,

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

to put niceness in the delivery of your feedback, and that can come across in a bunch of different ways. It can come across as by showing you're engaged, you listened.

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

and that can come across in a bunch of different ways. It can come across as by showing you're engaged, you listened. You know what the person's actually trying to do,

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

is also the entity that can harm us the most. And how we walk across this tightrope handling this paradox of people says a lot about our ability to make and keep friends.

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

Not attracted sexually, per Se, but most drawn. And across culture, across religion, and across gender -- except for one -- there are a few answers that just keep coming back.

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

Basically, when I look at my partner radiant and confident. Probably the biggest turn-on across the board. Radiant, as in self-sustaining.

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

The second step is we need to be willing to recognize the differences in folks and want to get to know them across those differences. Let me learn about your experiences so that I can develop empathy for you.

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

Even as a simple example, I mentioned we struggle to connect across differences. But think about this: a couple days ago, maybe a month ago,

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

So I'm actually going to pretend to be the cleaning lady, and my neighbor across the street is going to come over and pretend to be me. She's white."

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

intended to help us run away from a lion. So when you're being chased by a lion across the savanna of Africa, what do you do?

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

when most students never get to learn this way? Transcend recently surveyed 70,000 students across the US. Less than half said they loved school.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

Today, one in four DC elementary schools is adopting this approach, and it's spreading to more than 100 schools across the country. Yeah.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

From Brooklyn to DC to North Dakota, in 500 schools across the country, we've seen what happens

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

and stand on the front lines for justice. Today, all across America, more than 100,000 Black women are wearing this GirlTrek blue shirt

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

not unlike the civil rights movement teach-ins. And we're going to go all across the country. It is the biggest announcement this week:

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

Some of you in here, the influencers, shared the story. Urban Radio blasted it across the country. VG: Even the E! News channel interrupted a story about the Kardashians --

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

when suddenly the phone began to ring. So I stumbled across the darkened space and I picked up the receiver

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

that in the blue zone, as people age, and indeed across their lifespans, they're always surrounded by extended family, by friends,

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

We writers, we kind of do have that reputation, and not just writers, but creative people across all genres, it seems, have this reputation for being enormously mentally unstable.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

and then I immediately noticed something across the bridge of her nose, a crease in her skin.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

for models for how to do that, I've been sort of looking across time, and I've been trying to find other societies

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

and the poem would barrel through her and she would miss it and she said it would continue on across the landscape, looking, as she put it "for another poet."

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

Surfing well requires me to activate dozens of muscles across my body, combining explosive power with

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

this connection between our biological clock and the external world, or our eyes, works when we, for example, travel across time zones. Now how much light do we actually need?

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

neuroscience now gives us the ability to measure not only neural activity, but also energy consumption across, for example, the entire brain of the fly. The energy consumption is measured through ATP usage,

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

But this is limited to one narrative per group of actors and shared across the whole audience. We can now have artists and producers create a stage for a story.

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

we see that language models struggle in generalizing this knowledge, this learning across different contexts. And this is apparently because

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

we learned that actually language models can generalize well across different contexts, if only they have been previously exposed to examples

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

I spoke with a consultant who took a new job moved his family across the country then started a few days after the Great Recession

Superpower

and not a human. Transparency should be built across the entire experience, from the language used to the accessibility

Love, Trust and Marketing in the Age of AI | Amaryllis Liampoti | TED · TED

for systematically unlocking these hidden cures ... until now. We're utilizing artificial intelligence to scan across the world's knowledge of all 4,000 drugs and all 18,000 diseases

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

And then, we use artificial intelligence to look across the millions of drug-disease matches to identify the best opportunities to reduce suffering

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

For example, one day, I was reviewing through the results of our platform, and I came across leucovorin, this cheap vitamin derivative,

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

instead of disappearing at a throwaway price to a volatile market. Bustling kitchens across Kenya, serving thousands of meals daily, powered by clean energy and run by local women.

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

But what I mostly found was flawed systems and broken promises. Across Africa, a lot of the food supply was run by foreign organizations,

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

a public commitment to their right to food and education. We want to see that across Africa. We are redefining what school meals can and should be.

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

As a result, it is thought that less than 200,000 corals are planted across the world's oceans each year, with many of these corals not surviving.

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

their subsequent and stronger offspring will be spread far and wide. By using this precision approach across the Pacific, restoring as little as three percent of coral reefs

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

we will be planting 1.2 million heat-tolerant surviving corals per year, about 30 times more than planted across the Pacific today. By 2040, it is our ambition to increase the global scale

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

attended celebrations in the projects to mark the new beginning. The peace treaty inspired similar agreements across the country and lasted for 12 years.

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

and the EU methane policy still needs to be implemented across the 27 member states. Now here's something really important.

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

and I work to bring opportunity to rural communities across southern Appalachia. Appalachia, for me, is a really beautiful place,

A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TED · TED

We've drawn the attention of folks like the National Science Foundation, who have chosen us as one of 10 innovation communities across the country, and it was really the organization that I needed

A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TED · TED

That is how we reclaim our deterrence. To do so, we just have to stand with our allies across the world, united by the shared values

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

and of course, things that we just can't talk about. It used to be a case would come across my desk once a month. And then it was once a week.

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

the other day an ad flashed across my feed that stopped me in my tracks the

Romance

And a couple more years, they were able to translate across all the major languages. So I'm going to be using the symbol on the right

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

Training on copyrighted work without a license has rapidly become standard across much of the generative AI industry. But this training,

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

that's why a pushback against overwork is gathering steam across the world several European countries have created

Work

(Applause) I did enjoy just looking across the faces of this esteemed audience as that song was playing.

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

affects how we think act and feel that's why across the world there's a push to make urban areas more conducive

Slow Spaces

today there are hundreds of official slow cities spread across the planet Wolfville in Canada katumba in Australia

Slow Spaces

a café gratefulness, a wine that is gratefulness. Yes, I have even come across a toilet paper whose brand is called "Thank You."

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

and I journaled about all the ways in which I am defective across dimensions of life. So yeah, public speaker obviously bad, but what about at work?

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

on several Mondays over a course of a few months, I get lowest scores across dimensions. I don't love my wife well.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

In doing this every night, it forces my brain to optimize across dimensions, to balance the trade-offs

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

This picture happens to be Toronto, but this project actually happened in dozens of cities across the country and across the world.

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

but this project actually happened in dozens of cities across the country and across the world. Or in Nairobi,

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

my mom is a teacher, my dad with the US government. And it gave me this opportunity to be able to lean across the table and tell them that my vision for my career

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

so that means I was actually standing in the street on the storm drain, as if that could get me across faster. And there's an old man standing next to me.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

surrounded by loved ones. And now can you picture someone leaning forward across that campfire? It glows in their face.

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

When we analyzed surveys from more than 200,000 adults across the globe, we saw that nearly a third of the world's population

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

Yeah. At tax time, I found myself seated across from him, watching as he slowly tapped his pen

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

saying things you might not say to someone you just met. So when I first came across this study a few years earlier, one detail really stuck out to me,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

(Laughter) and to realize that people across the world are genuinely invested in the status of your new relationship.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

when it comes to love. I first came across this study when I was 29

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

and you and your peers to try to crack what agreed safety lines could be across the world, would you be willing to attend?

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

In the past 20 years, I've helped more than thousands of people across the world to help them make sense of their relationships

The 6 Essential Ingredients of Loving Relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh | TED · TED

illegal immigration just as we've seen play out across all of Europe over the last decade you're seeing play out in

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

border are come coming from other countries across Central and Latin America um that you they're going to get

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

according to the ABS. Which means we've never been more intimately connected across the globe than we are right now.

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

And to go back to the point of what you were saying before, which is that, you know, one of the key things I wanted to get across in the talk is that technology is politics now, and politics is technology.

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

these weaponized lawsuits. Organizations across America are now preparing for this to happen to them.

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

with the drugs that we already have. We use an AI platform to scan across the world's knowledge of every drug and every disease

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED