How native speakers pronounce “ago”

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to follow your heart about a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer I had a scan at 7:30 in the

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

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to follow your heart about a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer I had a scan at 7:30 in the

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

So why is this? I lived in Stratford-on-Avon until about five years ago. In fact, we moved from Stratford to Los Angeles.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

A few years ago, I broke into my own house. I had just driven home,

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

keeping Earth's chemistry within safe operating space. I was told 50 years ago to be afraid of sharks. Now I'm afraid because I don't see sharks when I go diving.

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

And I say, "Almost anywhere 50 years ago." So much has changed these images of coral reefs.

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

and it’s working. Just a few years ago, there were only a very few turtles.

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

but the most wondrous period of my life. It’s about seven years ago, and we adopted a teenage boy, and I had two teenagers already at home.

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

I teach a course at NYU called Flourishing, and 2 years ago we were talking about attention fragmentation,

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

When the Anxious Generation came out 2 years ago, one of the main objections I got was

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

And this I said to you like years ago, I said, "Sal, if someone would make a device that just had Khan

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

including when pain struck my family. So 10 years ago, my wife Jen was three months into her pregnancy

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

(Applause) I think it was a couple of months ago -- you would know it much better -- I saw a headline, it was a very clickbaity headline:

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

fleet operators as well as smart depot professionals. All of that didn't exist ten years ago. These are like AV-focused jobs.

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

It was going back, all the way back. You see, two billion years ago, life on Earth was mostly single-celled

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

and I sold my business to Google. And not long ago, I was at a private event

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

or we don't make it there at all. Two billion years ago, the first merger gave us our cells, and the ones that followed gave us our bodies,

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

and finally spent some one-on-one time with that little girl who left Robbins, Illinois all those years ago. So please allow me to reintroduce myself.

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

and the wrong words huge difference. Five months ago, I stood before that podium asking the Supreme Court to do something

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

Unlike THC, CBD is nonintoxicating. And as recently as about 30 years ago, scientists also discovered other cannabinoids,

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

because we were there -- I mean, a few decades ago. And today we are given the opportunity

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

the Milošević regime was trying to kill us. And just a few days ago, I participated in the funeral of a pastor,

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

which is nobody likes them. Forbes and HarrisX conducted a survey a couple of weeks ago 1,009 Americans.

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

John D. Rockefeller when he became the world's first billionaire a hundred years ago. John D. Rockefeller, he was an OG monopolist.

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

And I learned the hard way the value of sleep. Two-and-a-half years ago, I fainted from exhaustion. I hit my head on my desk.

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

(Laughter) Twenty years ago, I threw myself a bachelor party

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

especially for women. The arranged marriage was invented 4,400 years ago in order to form business alliances during harsh agrarian times.

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

It is a crime. Women, who five years ago were doctors, politicians, engineers and artists,

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

And here tonight is my soul sister, Julie, who was at my bachelor party 20 years ago. I love you, Julie.

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

I want to share a story. Ten years ago, I was an MBA intern with an opportunity at a Fortune 50 company,

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

that would turn them into brothers. About a century ago, friends would sit for portraits like these,

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

A few years ago, I signed up for something called a 360 review. (Laughter)

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

which seems like it comes out of nowhere, or it's already been answered. That means the host probably stopped listening two minutes ago because he thought of this really clever question,

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

Some of us will come back, came back a long time ago, and that little child who comes back

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

So a couple of years ago, a woman I know who I'll call Maya,

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

as mental health is today. Because not that long ago, mental health was a taboo topic shrouded in stigma.

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

I mentioned we struggle to connect across differences. But think about this: a couple days ago, maybe a month ago, I saw online where Snoop Dogg, yes, the rapper Snoop Dogg,

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

and my teammates and my daughters. And those women 50 years ago who fought so hard for Title IX,

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

It's doing exactly what it was designed to do over a century ago. It was built for the factory age

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

TMD: So let me tell you a story. About three weeks ago -- many of you may have watched --

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

But it would be worse, except for that I happen to remember that over 20 years ago, when I was a teenager, when I first started telling people that I wanted to be a writer,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

is the musician Tom Waits, who I got to interview several years ago on a magazine assignment. And we were talking about this,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

Because in the end it's like this, OK -- centuries ago in the deserts of North Africa, people used to gather for these moonlight dances of sacred dance and music

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

But we only have a few thousand upstreamists out there right now, by all accounts, and that's why, a few years ago, my colleagues and I said, you know what, we need to train

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

But models we're training today are so much better than the models we had even five years ago. It really is remarkable.

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

straight down then 150 years ago we adopted the idea that life proceeds in stages like an

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We are all descended from it. It lived about 500 million years ago. Then evolution went on to build the brain, which in turn,

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

when I lived and worked in Seoul, South Korea, as the NPR Bureau Chief there nearly 10 years ago. Seoul is all about optimizing your face and your body.

How Digital Culture Is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu | TED · TED

But then, we applied again. And just a few months ago, we received this really transformative funding.

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

a few years ago a friend asked me to give a friend of hers advice

And for those of us who use Fahrenheit, 126.7 degrees. A few days ago in Pakistan, 50.5 degrees. That's 122.9 in Fahrenheit.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

And you know, the fact that these scientists were absolutely correct decades ago, when they predicted these exact consequences

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

Well, if you look at how long it took to install a gigawatt of solar 20 years ago, a full year. Now it’s down to 15 hours, and it’s on the way down still.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

I realized that methane pollution from the oil and gas industry is so important, that five years ago, I packed my things and moved my entire family from Texas to Europe

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

BS: It was visceral, yeah. ES: This was two years ago. Since then, the gains in what is called reinforcement learning,

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

As this stuff happens quicker, you will forget what was true two years ago or three years ago. That's the key thing.

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

we shouldn't open Pandora's box. And my point to them is Pandora’s box was opened a long time ago with anti-radiation missiles that seek out surface-to-air missile launchers.

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

we have to look back where we started from. About 15 or 20 years ago with my students, we were developing the early days of deep learning,

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

I didn't have anyone closer. Nine years ago, one month after this photo was taken,

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

To me, the answer is pretty obvious. When I began studying human-AI interaction 13 years ago, it was inconceivable to me

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

And we have to build stop signs into our lives. When I was in Africa some years ago and then came back, I noticed water.

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

Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint. A few years ago, I started studying grit in the Chicago public schools.

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

"Well, it's better than having a eulogy read over a casket." My dad died seven years ago at the age of 96, and he was surrounded by family and friends and two hospice workers.

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

According to a lot of research, one of the best weapons is gratitude. So knowing this, I started a new tradition in our house a couple of years ago. Before a meal with my wife and kids,

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

She will regain her motivation. A few years ago, we asked people who observe the Hanukkah holiday to let us know whether they were lighting the first candle on the first night,

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

Like when you pop up the news and you discover the sky is falling. So for me, I was prepping for this TED talk a month ago, and I was already in pretty good shape, I thought.

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

I get all kinds of stories. About seven years ago, I started documenting my experiences to try to figure out why.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

They are true tellers. Even a few months ago, I never could have imagined publicly sharing

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

but unfortunately it was never published. So a few months ago, I was giving a talk at a small liberal arts college,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

the short version of the story of my relationship is this: a year ago, an acquaintance and I did a study designed to create romantic love,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

Like it’s quite amazing how different the process of creating software is now than it was two years ago. But I expect like another move that big in the coming months

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

I think you can get used to anything step by step. I think if I were like transported from 10 years ago to right now, all at once,

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

all things considered, your son will grow up into? SA: I remember -- it's so long ago now, I don't know when the first iPad came out.

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

we need to start with why things have to change. About 10,000 years ago, humans began to farm. This agricultural revolution was a

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

A decade ago, Sam was both a White House chef and senior policy advisor for

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

Let's start with the crab cakes. In the Pacific Northwest, 2 years ago, they closed the snow crab fishery for

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

it's so nice to get to sit down with you. A few days ago, you opened the TED conference with an absolute blockbuster of a talk.

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

and we're super happy." John Gottman: Fifty-two years ago, we put love under the microscope. Julie and I are the founders of the Gottman Institute and the Love Lab,

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

CC: I believe so. I started using it a year ago, because it was like, oh, hold on a minute.

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

for what a healthy relationship looks like, and even what looked good in your relationship ten years ago might not look good today, you know?

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

to being critically ill. Fifteen years ago was when I went into the hospital in the ICU and nearly died five times over the course of a three-year period