How native speakers pronounce “became”

She was eventually auditioned for the Royal Ballet School. She became a soloist; she had a wonderful career at the Royal Ballet. She eventually graduated from the Royal Ballet School,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Seagrasses began to grow again once the clams were back. The water became clearer. Creatures that live and need the seagrasses

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

You control you. That became my mantra, and that became my map for life.

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

That became my mantra, and that became my map for life. When I watched these people,

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

Because principled pragmatism is self-interest with a spine. I recently became a proud Swiss, but I was born and raised a proud Palestinian.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

You can build a platform for dialogue and for action. That became Uniting for a Shared Future Coalition. That's our coalition.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

in talk shows, in everything. And I became famous. A lot of people started writing emails to me

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

"Hey Jia, you can do anything you want, but it'd be great if you became a teacher." (Laughter)

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

I think in the world it’s on the order of a million every year. So in theory, if this became everywhere, you could be saving 900,000 lives globally.

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

they merged. The smaller cell became what we now call the mitochondria, the little powerhouse inside almost every complex cell on earth.

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

when separate entities stop competing and start building a new whole. Like how molecules became cells, cells became bodies

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

Like how molecules became cells, cells became bodies and individuals became societies.

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

cells became bodies and individuals became societies. Every rung on that ladder was climbed through mergers.

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

Growing up in a place where access is limited, hamming it up became my pastime. A dream passed down.

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

So when I started auditioning and booking, it became clear I was the one who could do it. I could do something I enjoyed and lift some weight off my parents.

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

or their ability to get the best education for me and my three siblings. It got to the point where my career became the center of our orbit, and not because we chased success,

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

And as the pressure got greater, stage became my home. Performing was the safest way for me to be free.

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

I even wrote a "New York Times" best selling book about how I did it, how I became a "Master of Me." (Laughter)

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

Learning how to live instead of just surviving became my way of returning some of that visibility. I went to Bali this past year

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

I validated their concerns and then bridged back. The interrogation became a dialogue. The room's energy flipped.

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

or just ordinary people who joined to help us, who became our voice when we did not have one. So that's the lesson that I've learned,

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

We never gave up on our quest for freedom. And ultimately, we became free, and just sharing that story of success

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

(Laughter) And the comment section for that video became sort of like a self-help section, where people could talk about their tonsil stone experiences

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

and, like, tips and tricks for getting rid of them. And I think it became this great way for people to talk about something that they'd never felt comfortable taking about publicly.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

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

But the practice really helped me with my anxiety and depression. And so my goal became to make meditation attractive to my fellow skeptics

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

indicating some real deep, kind of, under-the-skin stress response, the more those Black participants became linked up to them over time. And I think this finding is a little bit terrifying.

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

But they found that when people went into this group of people, they became warmer, open, more friendly, because they made this assumption. And so indeed, it became this self-fulfilling prophecy

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

they became warmer, open, more friendly, because they made this assumption. And so indeed, it became this self-fulfilling prophecy called the “acceptance prophecy”.

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

I'll take connection when I can find it. So the cat group became half cat group, half social group. And I think sometimes we think that you know, a tiny act,

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

that it actually led to the decrease of desire. The more connected I became, the more responsible I felt, the less I was able to let go in your presence.

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

and I wish I could say I underwent some immediate transformation where I became some fabulous connector and lived happily ever after.

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

and run-streak motivator with me during the lockdown. We became a village of two. Each day she would ask me,

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

We lost loved ones. We became depressed and stressed, and our athletes did too. School was canceled.

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

with this walk-and-talk idea that things became doable and sustainable and viable. So I started this talk talking about the tush,

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

I decided to investigate. I became a mentor for an afterschool program called My Brother's Keeper. And in this space, we could have more in-depth conversations.

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

And at the same time, I too had an “aha!” moment. It became clear to me that middle school boys are so impressionable and so full of potential.

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

Well, these women took those organizing skills, and they became some of the most legendary civil rights activists this country has ever seen.

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

Urban priorities changed as we moved towards the industrial revolution because infectious disease became the risk of the day. But what about now?

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

which, decidedly unlike any of my previous books, went out in the world for some reason, and became this big, mega-sensation, international bestseller thing.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

But here's what I did. So first, when it became free, I asked the nurses to move my bed to the window place,

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

that have a shared need to invent new words. "Unalive," for example, became a thing because mental health communities on TikTok

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

evolved to include content with increasing fidelity as consumer recording devices became more prevalent and media-sharing platforms more powerful.

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

he introduced a structure for transitions that quickly became the consensus the person going through the transition

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Terrell was an inspiration to his younger siblings and the reason why I became a lifelong advocate for peace. He came home from winter break.

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

world to explore the how and the why of slowing down I became a full-time student of slowness since then I've

How to slow down with Carl Honoré

and art long walks with loved ones became a cherished ritual some even found a new happiness and

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and photo-editing software, it became easier and easier to manipulate reality. And now, with generative AI,

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

his tears fell to Earth and became bees that made honey for the people. Life from grief.

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

nothing in their pockets, but became immensely successful through careers in public service, my mom is a teacher, my dad with the US government.

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

Had to make some tweaks. And ultimately, I became CEO. Not of Procter and Gamble, granted,

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

And all of their premarital and marital property became joined. That inheritance is now marital property.

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

So we started working after training a lot of officers, you know, and she became a trainer and an interventionist. She was explaining that now

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

wasn't taken home to raise that people became became just shocked that there would be this weird and horrible and

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

or serious or silly. The Bowery Poetry Club became my classroom and my home, and the poets who performed

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

The hashtag #BlackLivesMatter became the most recognized call for Black people and our children

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

(Applause) Thank you. I became very curious about the poets after spending six years with them,

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

a saintly man. He became a Jesuit. He converted from his Anglican faith.

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

the Oxford Movement, otherwise known as -- and he became a Jesuit priest. He burned all his poetry at the age of 24

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

that's what scared me the most: the element of chance. So I became very methodical about testing different ways that I could manage my ups and downs,

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED

walking around a painted porch, a "stoa." That later became "stoicism." And in the Greco-Roman world,

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED

I ended up extending that trip for a year and a half around the world, and that became the basis for my first book, that leads me here today.

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED

My spirit shifted. I became a better person. You can ask people --

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

But I ran anyway, and in 2012, I became an upstart in a New York City congressional race. I swore I was going to win.

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

But slowly, the time travel and adventures of my youth became using my GPS to figure out how much traffic I'd inevitably be sitting in.

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

So that's right, my career started with pond scum. Now, it was no surprise I became a scientist. Growing up far away from here,

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

to figure out how much traffic I'd inevitably be sitting in. The flowers became the screen saver to my laptop I spent way too much time on. I only saw the sunrise when pulling all-nighters to get work done.

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

And those fantasy lands, well, those became essays and articles from underfunded newspapers. And yes, some of this is just a part of growing up, necessary even.

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

classes like hip-hop sampling, on how neo soul and blues became the basis to a new sound taught me how media can be used as a way of preserving legacy,

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

all the way down into our cells. OK, now our initial curiosity became infectious. Thousands of scientists from different fields

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

the simple act of letting light in, soon became far more active. The nervous system began to evolve.

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

Sight turning to insight. Seeing became understanding. Understanding led to actions.

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

my comments exploded with TIL: Today I Learned. In that moment, my mission became clear. Take the most rigorous, mind-blowing research

The Thrill of Not Knowing All the Answers | Harini Bhat | TED · TED

One invention unleashed a thousand more. And in time, we became homo technologicus. Around 80 years ago,

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

who oversee their cultural preservation and ecological sanctuary. I became deeply inspired by their ways of learning and remembering already existing knowledge in nature.

How AI Art Could Enhance Humanity’s Collective Memory | Refik Anadol | TED · TED

and much to my surprise, the talk became one of the 10 most-viewed talks in the history of TED.

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

where none exist. Kathy became convinced something must have happened during her romantic getaway with Rich

How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch | TED · TED

that soured him on the relationship, and she became obsessed with figuring out what that was. And so she spent countless hours

How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch | TED · TED

Forge meaning and build identity. That became my mantra. Forging meaning is about changing yourself.

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

Two years ago, I became an accidental intrapreneur. Meaning an entrepreneur,

Ask Dumb Questions, Embrace Mistakes — and Other Lessons on Innovation | Dave Raggio | TED · TED

but thrived. Listening became so important to the project that we implemented something that we called dumb-question sessions.

Ask Dumb Questions, Embrace Mistakes — and Other Lessons on Innovation | Dave Raggio | TED · TED

we went on to post 173 videos that got over 300 million views, and somehow our channel became one of the fastest-growing on YouTube. And yes, we had tons of flops, even more than ever.

Is Perfectionism Just Procrastination in Disguise? | Jon Youshaei | TED · TED

all you can do is struggle to try and make sense. And this struggle kind of became the point. I began to think, "Maybe that's my job."

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

And, as often happens in America, immigration became synonymous with Mexicans. There were endless stories of Mexicans

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

then margarine disappeared, then bread became too expensive, then milk became rationed.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

then bread became too expensive, then milk became rationed. And most of all, a kind of normalized political fear

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

In 1995, I moved from Japan to New York with my wife and daughter. After I came to New York, my work became more site-specific, addressing more socio-political themes

A Firework Ladder to the Sky — and the Magic of Explosive Art | Cai Guo-Qiang | TED · TED

We were taken into a slum in the outskirts of Manila. It was there I became friends with Sonny Boy, who lived on what was literally a pile of steaming garbage.

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

In 1949, a crew of smokejumpers became caught on a mountainside in Montana above a fast-moving wildfire.

How to Make Big Decisions in Challenging Circumstances | Jonathan Reimer | TED · TED

they ran. And it became a race for them to reach the top of the hill before the fire caught up with them.

How to Make Big Decisions in Challenging Circumstances | Jonathan Reimer | TED · TED

I had a family and I became a full professor and I exhibited in fine galleries.

How Art Transforms Brokenness Into Beauty | Lily Yeh | TED · TED

(Laughter) And then everybody became happy. Over the years,

How Art Transforms Brokenness Into Beauty | Lily Yeh | TED · TED

I ran a Kickstarter campaign and my graphic novel became "The Burning Metronome." It's a supernatural murder mystery about otherworldly creatures

R. Alan Brooks: When the world is burning, is art a waste of time? | TED · TED