How native speakers pronounce “asked”

looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself if today were the last day of my life what I want to do what I am

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

(Laughter) If you work in education, you're not asked. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

(Laughter) And you're never asked back, curiously. That's strange to me. But if you are, and you say to somebody,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

with to-do lists that never end in a 2014 study people were asked to do nothing for between 6 and 15 minutes in

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looking at my ticket when a young man walked up and asked me if I needed help. Time changes memory, but I remember him clearly.

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

didn't have a flight. I asked him if he worked in the airport and he said, "Yeah, sort of."

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

along with other great ideas to try to protect the ocean’s blue heart. Sometimes I'm asked, "So what's the best place to go diving?" And I say, "Almost anywhere

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

After a particularly big blow up over chores and responsibilities, I finally asked a dangerous question. I said, "Do you think that living together

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

and we recruited a group of commuters, and we asked them to predict how they would feel on the train that morning

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

reported having a less pleasant and happy commute than those we asked to connect with the person sitting next to them. People’s beliefs about social interaction here weren’t just wrong --

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

He was a chubby, loveable guy, and he even asked me, "Why?" In fact, he invited me to explain myself.

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

until one morning Jen and I were talking and she asked whether we could, whether we should, whether we might

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

So for example, one day I went to a Starbucks, and asked the manager, "Hey, can I be a Starbucks greeter?" He was like, "What's a Starbucks greeter?"

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

have to be a great entrepreneur, or get a PhD to teach -- but no, I just asked, and I could teach.

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

People you'd recognize. And I asked them how many believe there's more than a 10 percent chance

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

A bespoke system I'd been building with a legal AI company for the last year. And I trained it on every question asked by a Supreme Court justice in the last 25 years

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

but not a god. Harvey asked the questions, we found the answer.

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

You know, at one moment in the argument, Justice Barrett asked a question that Harvey hadn't predicted. And I remember it felt like

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

And when the Serbian police went to his church and asked him to give up on those people, he said, "No, if you're going to kill someone,

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

When the astrologer arrived to meet Louis, the King asked him one last question. "Given your prophetic abilities, tell me, how long will you live?"

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

and then some clap emojis from the people on Zoom. Not a single person asked a tough question," she said. And I had this moment where I realized

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

And we start chatting. And at some point, you know, I asked them, like, "Is there a group where we can keep in touch?

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

or how much you've suffered. Somebody asked Stephen Hawking once what his IQ was, and he said, "I have no idea. People who brag about their IQs are losers."

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

So I'm going to engage with him. And I asked, you know, where are you from? Like, I'm from the US too.

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

And I've gone to more than 20 countries in the last few years with "Mating in Captivity," and I asked people, when do you find yourself most drawn to your partner?

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

and you will emerge from them with a sense of all you can achieve. Remember that setback I asked you to think of at the beginning of this talk?

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

in order to have those deep connections. So I asked people how they interacted. Were you in person and face to face?

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

about the experiences that you're going through. And I'm often asked, does it have to be in person? Does texting count?

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

it was usually a different doctor every couple of weeks. Nobody asked us about our periods, and we definitely didn’t talk about it. You know, even the open-weight women had issues

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

the new and improved US Olympic and Paralympic Committee contacted me and asked me if I would cochair a newly-formed Women's Health Task force.

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

"How much stress have you experienced in the last year?" They also asked, "Do you believe that stress is harmful for your health?"

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

Inspired by the 2016 presidential debates, I asked this group of boys an age-old question: “Does absolute power corrupt absolutely?”

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

Students began to discuss amongst themselves. And then I asked, "Now what would you do if you had this kind of power? And what if it was unchecked?"

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

and then pose an essential question. One year we posed an essential question to our students that asked, "How can we create a community where everyone feels a sense of belonging?"

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

I once met this Chilean guy at a hostel. "So what do you do?" I asked him. "You mean for work?"

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

"You mean for work?" he responded as if I had just asked the color of his underwear. (Laughter)

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

the poet Anis Mojgani. And so I asked him, "Anis, how do you feel about the mantra,

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

VG: Even the E! News channel interrupted a story about the Kardashians -- which, if you asked us, is just a little bit of justice -- (Laughter)

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

And there is evidence for this. When I asked him why he lived so long, he kind of looked at me under hooded eyelids and he growled,

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

but knew the community. Our medical assistant asked some routine questions. She asked, "What's your chief complaint?"

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

Our medical assistant asked some routine questions. She asked, "What's your chief complaint?" "Headache."

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

and therefore our healthcare professionals should do something about it. And yet, Veronica asked me perhaps the most compelling question

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

perhaps the most compelling question I've been asked in a long time. In that follow-up visit, she said,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

I went back and forth, I saw all sorts of people in healthcare, and no one asked about my home." The honest answer is that in healthcare,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

So first, when it became free, I asked the nurses to move my bed to the window place, because that does not only give you power of the fresh air supply,

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

In fact, many studies have already confirmed that when people are asked to judge if someone is lying or not

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

And what about the security board context where people are asked about their intentions and reasons for why they are crossing borders or boarding planes.

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

the emotions you're feeling I asked everyone what's the biggest emotion you struggled with in your time

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Had he done that, it could have been better. Also, we could have asked it to make more. We could have put in the rankings for the humor.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

by Kavya Davuluri was this one. "Above all, I asked the class of 3000 not to forget your humanity." (Laughter)

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

When we arrived, I'd asked for either an on-site or a virtual interpreter. Unfortunately, they told me neither were available,

How AI Can Bridge the Deaf and Hearing Worlds | Adam Munder | TED · TED

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

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we respond to I asked everyone what type of feedback they find most helpful

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the 1990s to describe the moments in our lives when we are asked to provide accounts of ourselves

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During the negotiation, I asked who was winning the war that we were waging against each other. Every time we'd die or go to prison,

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

I got a call from my friend Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark, New Jersey. Mayor Baraka asked me to help him to strengthen his community violence intervention strategy.

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

and deployed them in high-violence areas, and asked them to use their relationship capital to intervene and mediate gang disputes that could lead to violence.

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

"I have been doing this for 30 years, so I'm good." I asked them like, "Do you sleep? Do you have headaches?

The Hidden Cost of Buying Gold | Claudia Vega | TED · TED

which they are super annoyed about. Dr. Kissinger asked Craig and I to do Track II dialogues with the Chinese,

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

I'm a leading signatory of the "Pause" letter, where we and 30,000 other people asked the AI labs to wait six months before building the next version.

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

Right now, many AI companies train on creative work they haven't paid for or even asked permission to use. This is unfair and unsustainable.

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

One poll from the AI Policy Institute, in April, asked people about the common policy among AI companies of training on publicly available data.

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

and he was very amused one day when I asked him if I could purchase his voice for a song that I was working on.

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

you'll hear a melody I made up on my violin. And then I asked AI to turn that into a dramatic movie score. (Real violin)

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

When I was interviewing for a job at "The Economist," one of the interviewers actually just asked me, "Why are you doing this?" I told him,

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

I believe I see a few of you waving them around right now. And I'm sure he'd have asked, "But how could a spinning jenny lead to all that?"

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

about consumer preferences for sustainable packaging. Clara's colleagues have asked her to write a proposal arguing for how the company ought to respond.

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

This echoes an ancient question. People once asked if writing, if books, if the internet

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

does it matter that we cannot? People once asked if maps can navigate for us, does it matter that we cannot?

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

I started studying grit in the Chicago public schools. I asked thousands of high school juniors to take grit questionnaires,

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

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

I like to think that before we enter this world, we are asked to sign a kind of cosmic release form, acknowledging the extreme risk it is

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

all joined in with such enthusiasm and creativity. People felt like they were asked to be givers or invited to be givers for the first time,

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

And when he was starting to do that, other people saw, they were inspired, they asked if they could join and help out. And soon they were feeding ambulance crews,

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

And Chloe asked her mom a lot of questions. Starting with "Why doesn't that woman have a home?"

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

Chloe was learning to sew at the time, so she asked her grandma to help her sew a beautiful tote bag, and they filled it with toiletries and hygienic products and other goodies.

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

And the woman said she couldn't even remember the last time somebody had asked her her name. Chloe has since made and delivered 5,000 of those bags.

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

I recall something I learned from Tati Martinez, a high school senior, when I asked them to describe the leadership of young people. They said, "We as young people have been through so much,

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

It's so abstract. Before, if any of us had been asked to donate 15 hours a month to help out with the refugee crisis,

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

Recently, we took the kids ice skating, and later that day, my six-year-old, Oliver, asked me, "Mommy, who is the oldest kid in our family?"

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

So, Sora, this is the image and video generator. I asked Sora this: What will it look like when you share some shocking revelations here at TED?

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

But this one genuinely astounded me. When I asked it to come up with a diagram that shows the difference between intelligence and consciousness.

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

And the reason I think you might be wondering this is because I have been asked this question again and again and again for the past seven months.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

CA: So this impressed me too. I asked it to imagine Charlie Brown as thinking of himself as an AI. It came up with this.

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

And when people called or emailed, which they did every day for weeks, they always asked the same question first: are you guys still together?

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

and friendly strangers like this one. I did radio interviews and they asked. I even gave a talk, and one woman shouted up to the stage,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

He seemed a little mystified by this. "You mean, you didn't fall in love with the person you did it with?" I asked. "Well..." He paused.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

"I think she just wants to be friends." "But did you become better friends?" I asked. "Did you feel like you got to really know each other after doing the study?"

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

and I can see that what I want is sometimes more than can reasonably be asked for. What I want from love is a guarantee,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

but you would love to here on this stage? SA: So first of all, you asked about, are we worried about this model or that model?

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

without knowing whether or not he will always choose me. I want it to be enough to have asked and answered 36 questions, and to have chosen to love someone so generous and kind and fun

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

of great public interest in that sense. CA: So Sam, I asked your o1-pro reasoning model, which is incredibly --

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

I think it was reasonable for all of the reasons that you asked earlier, as we weren't sure about the impact these systems were going to have

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

"I feel nothing." And then she asked me, "Am I asking for too much?"

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

looking for Solutions not just detailing the problems and I asked you this last time when we went through the risks of

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

John: At a workshop with 1,200 people, we posed that question to the audience and asked them to come up with a softened startup for that situation.

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

So they decided to try the dreams within conflict conversation. So when Alison asked Jenny, "Do you have some background or childhood history

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

Now listen to what Allison said when she was asked about the childhood history question. She said ...

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

where you said, “So I asked ChatGPT to write a TED Talk in the style of Carole Cadwalladr.” And and you showed what was --

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