How native speakers pronounce “away”

badly I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the valley but something slowly began to

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

Pride all fear of embarrassment or failure these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

you will gradually become the old and be cleared away sorry to be so dramatic but it's quite

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

It's been great, hasn't it? I've been blown away by the whole thing. In fact, I'm leaving.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Number one, that the most useful subjects for work are at the top. So you were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

I made it just in time, but they had given away my seat to someone else, so I got stuck in the back of the plane, next to the bathrooms,

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

relationships thrive on two things that Roadrunner living takes away from us time and attention which points up a

Running

running towards something or are we really just running away from ourselves

Running

while running Microsoft Bill Gates Used To Hide Away in a cabin in the woods for two weeks every year

Slow Thinking

he told me to put the children's section as far away from the front door as possible, so that when a child makes a

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

We must never allow the mining of the deep seas to sweep away the security the living deep ocean provides to all of us.

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

By locking in on you for the next 600 seconds, I'm very confident that you're going to walk away with what I think is the single best hack for longevity, purpose

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

bit of dopamine available just one swipe away, and that undermines the ability to do difficult or sustained cognitive work

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

What's interesting is that her parents did go on to get divorced, and my parents stayed together for 23 years before my mom passed away. Now do I think that’s due to them commuting separately?

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

was my boogeyman. It has bothered me my whole life because I was running away from it. Then I started embracing it.

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

People who lose their livelihoods will feel abandoned. People who keep theirs will feel entitled to look away. And bit by bit, the agreement frays.

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

You’re just one Roman Empire history final away from a relaxing spring break.

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

the church and extended family gave us what they could, and we was off. And right away, it seemed to be the right decision. In the first year, I starred in a movie alongside William H. Macy

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

Nine minds ready to attack -- and you stand 10 feet away from them. There are no prepared speeches in this court.

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

New gadgets, fancy alarm clocks, stay away from blue light. There are lots of services, products and advice columns

Do You Really Need 8 Hours of Sleep Every Night? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter | TED · TED

Growing up in that system where everything is taken away from you, from your childhood to the right to go to school,

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

The good news is that for many of us, the fascination with gross stuff doesn't exactly go away, we just kind of pretend like it's not there.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

Some advice to astrologers: keep away from kings and heights. (Laughter)

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

that they ended up with a murdered emperor on cue. I'm not suggesting that we do away with prediction. I'm going to continue to use my weather app every single day.

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

but believe it or not, you might be better off closing the books, putting away the music, and going to sleep.

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

Look at my friend Warren Buffett. He's already given more away, in today's dollars, than he still has.

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

(Applause and cheers) MacKenzie Scott is giving away money faster, smarter, no-strings-attached than pretty much anyone in history.

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

I had to rename the whole thing while it was taking off. You know, they even tried to push me away from the lobster. (Laughter)

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

I lived in a remote mountainous region of Pakistan. The prime minister was more than 100 miles away from me in the capital city.

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

the optimism I had as an 11-year-old activist was gone. But I couldn't walk away. Because I knew exactly what Afghan girls were going through.

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

they avoid eye contact, they pull their chair a couple inches away from the person who's sitting next to them,

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

So maybe the part of me that likes to garden or do yoga will begin to wither away if my spouse, for example, doesn't like these activities.

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

We've had them before. We know what it's like. The kind of conversation where you walk away feeling engaged and inspired, or where you feel like you've made a real connection

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | 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

You know, my niece read my book "Platonic," and one thing that she took away from it was that for friendship to happen, someone has to be brave.

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

you're not integrating it into your entire personality. You're trying to push it away and suppress it and not make it who you are.

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

And the shame can really take over your whole personality because you're pushing away this part of who you are that you think is shameful. But then so much of your personality is spent

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

And we are able to sort of relinquish all of the energies that we spend trying to push this thing away. And so in that way,

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

So the first group is: I am most drawn to my partner when she is away, when we are apart, when we reunite.

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

Go for it. There's so much fun out there," then they can turn away and they can experience connection and separateness at the same time.

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

Are you going to be angry with me?" And they may be gone, but they're never really away. And those are often the people that will tell you,

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

I'll paint the picture for you. It's four weeks away from that big deadline. You have mouths to feed, a home to maintain,

Let Your Ambition Light You Up — Not Burn You Out | Tarveen Forrester | TED · TED

that are prioritizing work-life balance. The Gen Zs have completely run away from the hustle culture, yet the millennials are still stuck in it.

Let Your Ambition Light You Up — Not Burn You Out | Tarveen Forrester | TED · TED

which led to a change in her usual dietary intake, away from meals provided to the elderly to more healthful, home-cooked meals.

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

in the exact places where there's the most room for change. At work, instead of backing away from an uncomfortable conversation, changing direction might look like naming how awkward it is

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

what they do is they tell a story about a 1989 Honda Accord. It's a car that their father gave them before they went away to college. And it ran great.

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

We're different. So we kept plugging away, and then 2020 hit.

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

we know the threat response as being the fight, flight, freeze response intended to help us run away from a lion. So when you're being chased by a lion across the savanna of Africa,

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

And if they have signs of burnout, they notice it just right away because that's how they do. And then there's people like me,

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

but rather rooted in a deep sense of self. And so what my school does is move away from either-or thinking. Instead of boys believing that they have to choose

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

from a police choke hold, passed away of a heart attack. Erica was just 27 years old,

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

the zigzagging line on the screen next to his bed flattened out, and two men in black came to carry my father away. And I suddenly realized, as my parents’ only child,

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

as on the Italian mainland, less than 200 miles away. There are 10 times as many centenarians

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

But as soon as I step into that wide awake silence, all the worries that have been clacking away at me on the long drive up, all the plans and debates and arguments,

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

all the plans and debates and arguments, they all fall away, and I can hear myself not think.

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

and technologies that are racing outside our control. But not far away is a place where debates are beside the point, and where actually we gather the reserves we need

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

solidarity and solace. It's a place where we go to get away from the stress of the grind of work

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

Are you comfortable with that? Because you look at it even from an inch away and, you know -- I'm not at all comfortable with that assumption.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

They finally spot her. She's in the water. She's swimming away from them upstream, rescuing children as she goes,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

Because if you put a dirty plate into a two-gallon Ziploc bag and seal it, it will keep the bugs away. And it'll be there for you

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

we know that the old industrial economy has gone away we have the internet disruptive Technologies a networked world

Lifequakes

identities we've cultivated for years Melt Away personal stories we thought we'd be

Desert

she shed 60 pounds one woman had to do away with going to her favorite Chinese restaurant seeing movies or any other

Shed

Someone who needed a meal. Someone who they just could not turn away. But that spirit shaped me.

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

It can mean instead of a child relying on an NGO that might go away tomorrow, they can rely on something greater:

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

A lifeline for coral reefs. So I'm asking you -- don't look away. Change your perspective

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

There's an old rule, I'm old enough to remember, right? Grove giveth, Gates taketh away. OK, the hardware just gets faster and faster.

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

I know this sounds nerdy. There's a whole industry there that goes away because you have all this flexibility now.

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

so the next time you're chatting one to one with someone try hiding your phones away if you're not ready for that

Connect

the upsides and downsides of busy lives clearly all that time away from Friends School and extracurriculars stressed out

Family

When I took this photo, the railroad tracks are obviously parallel, but you can see that they narrow as they recede away from me and intersect at a single vanishing point.

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

We now have a very good indication that this image is not authentic. The most important thing I want you to take away from this is that while it may not be easy,

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

that looks so different from where we are now. But it might be just a few years away or a decade away. To understand why we're going there,

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

breaks matters too so maybe try stepping away from the screens to do something genuinely slow

Slow Work

that will heal us and bring us back together. A few weeks before Roman passed away, we were celebrating my birthday

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

cities where Mother Nature is out of mind or far away and like it or not our environment

Slow Spaces

So things like becoming a beekeeper and putting away enough honey that he knew wouldn't spoil so that we would have it for decades.

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

That's the civility, the acknowledgment. And then as they get closer, they'll look away, to give each other some space.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

We gave kids this windfall of Goldfish for themselves and a chance to give some of their Goldfish away to a puppet named Monkey.

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

with the intention to connect. So none of you are getting away with it today when I talk about how we need your art,

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

but they were actually even happier when they got to give some of their Goldfish away. And this warm glow of giving persists into adulthood.

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

But she felt so guilty for taking herself away from the climate change space to do something that is so trivial and so frivolous.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

And so I think we should shift the conversation away from what's the AGI moment to a recognition that, like, this thing is not going to stop,

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

I think this is really important. And I think we’re not far away from models that are going to be of great public interest in that sense.

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

They don't interrupt. They don’t walk away mid-conversation. And they don’t cover up sarcasm as humor.

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

regulation in place is actually going away or is eroding um the uh United Kingdom last year put their flag uh in

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

what gives you hope in 2025 well I mean first of all taking away the geopolitics the technology is a bright

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

grow, process, package, transport all we eat and throw away is a problem for the climate.

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

What can we do? The bad news is that these things never really go away, no matter how long your relationship lasts.

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

into those numbers in the next 15 years. Like, that's not that far away. I think there's going to be some people

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

Give each other chances to grow in each other's languages and countries. What I want you to take away today is that all these challenges are tricky,

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

I used to hate having to throw this food away when I needed it at home for my family."

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

69 percent of all relationship conflict problems are perpetual, which means that they never go away. They never get fully solved.

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

and it's like, oh, it's like a baby breaking its toys. What that means is breaking the law and getting away with it. It's having absolute impunity

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

And this is, to use the Silicon Valley framework, it's because they've always gotten away with it. So, you know, if you do it fast enough, it's then too late.

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

a police investigation into the Brexit donor was voided. And at that point the Court of Appeal decided that the defense fell away. So it was the continued publication by TED,

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

you know, small church, lots of opinions. Especially once my grandfather passed away and she was like the head of the ministry.

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

that I can't lean on my dad for. My mom passed away, by the way, so that's why I'm referring to him a lot in adulthood.

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

where we aren't able to find a repurposed drug for a patient and they do pass away from their disease. It's just so heartbreaking.

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

promise we're gonna we are going to come away from some of the somber stuff to the light.

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED