How native speakers pronounce “believe”

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I'm talking about this new hawk in my backyard. And one of my viewers didn't believe me. They didn't believe that I had a bird in my backyard.

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

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I'm talking about this new hawk in my backyard. And one of my viewers didn't believe me. They didn't believe that I had a bird in my backyard.

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

And one of my viewers didn't believe me. They didn't believe that I had a bird in my backyard. And I could not have that.

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

the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work and the only way to do great work is to love

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. I believe this passionately, that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

about ecology and the revolution that was triggered by Rachel Carson. I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

but for all books. I've come to believe that if you're interested in living in a society where

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

Okay. Awesome, twentysomethings really matter. So, I specialize in twentysomethings because I believe that every single one of those 50 million twentysomethings

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

that's where we're doing the most work. But I now believe that an even larger damage is the diminishment of the human

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

it would have an opposite consequence. And that process, I really believe, had a very small part in turning my son into this amazing, thriving,

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

is this belief that relationships are hard. And we believe that due to one primary reason: our metric of success is based on what we've seen everyone else do.

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

And I hated it. Not because I do not believe in empathy -- and by the way, I love hummus.

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

Then October 7 happened, and the war in Gaza expanded. And I realized, if I truly believe in my work, I have to bring in Israelis and Palestinians

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

they were precisely backward. But notice that if you believe that talking with a stranger would suck, you wouldn't try it,

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

And I was so touched. I just couldn't believe it. And that video got over five million views on Youtube.

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

And that video got over five million views on Youtube. The world couldn't believe that either. (Laughter)

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

but my uncle drives an Uber in New Orleans and I believe that one of the largest jobs for men globally and not just men -- obviously women also drive vehicles --

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

And I asked them how many believe there's more than a 10 percent chance that AI kills most of humanity in the next 20 years.

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

We might be more likely to do what an AI says if we believe that it really feels for us, that it really understands us,

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

and then the opportunity to thrive. And this opportunity was given to us by people who believe in humanity, people who never gave up on human values, even against all odds,

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

And this changes the entire narrative, because, look, I honestly believe that the truth is the real oxygen for democracy.

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

It was about human differences in the sense that you either believe in human values or not. You either believe in the right of someone else to live,

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

in the sense that you either believe in human values or not. You either believe in the right of someone else to live, whether they pick one religion or not.

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

You know, the one that happens to line his pockets. And when you believe that prediction, as if it were telling you something about the future,

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

is that predictions can be weapons of power. But they only work if we believe them. If Oedipus had laughed off the prophecy that he would kill his father

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

and spend the next few hours cramming and practicing, but believe it or not, you might be better off closing the books, putting away the music,

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

Forbes tracks 3,428 people we believe have a net worth right now of a billion dollars or more. And they all have one thing in common.

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

Kylie Jenner's team gave us what we believe are bogus numbers about her company to get onto the Forbes billionaires list,

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

Get married. You don't believe me? There's a book called "Get Married."

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

to take one step forward. Eventually, I came to believe that change was slow but steady,

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

How could I continue to have faith that things would improve? How could anyone believe that leaders were committed to girls' education when they handed over an entire country to the men who pointed a gun at my head

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

wouldn't ban girls from school or oppress women. The Afghans I spoke with didn't believe it. And they were right.

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

I don't have all the answers on how to change the world, and I don't believe anyone else does either. If I have learned anything, it is that progress is never guaranteed.

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

but she hadn't known, been made to believe that it was possible to have a friend be enough. If we can recognize

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

people feeling so lonely and so disconnected, I believe that if we leave friendship at the bottom of this hierarchy, it's like there's gold at our feet that we're treating as concrete.

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

who to marry and even who our friends are going to be, based on what we already believe. Again, that means we're not listening to each other.

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

and pushes you to your fullest potential. I believe, with the right tools, you can nurture your ambition

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

Others as a reason to say no to everybody and everything. And some even believe they minimize your dreams. But boundaries are actually what empower you

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

By thinking of our health as primarily physical and mental, we overlook what I believe is the greatest challenge and the greatest opportunity of our time.

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

Over the next decade, I believe that social health will become as ingrained in our collective consciousness

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

over one that would benefit themselves as individuals. I believe it. Telling the partner my name was actually Henna

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

The colleague on the call is, like, almost outraged. Like, "What? Is that a real thing? I can't believe this is happening." Meanwhile, I am feeling grateful to the neighbor

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

not even really understanding how I got there or why. And I honestly didn't even believe that stress could cause physiological symptoms.

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

and if that was true, wow, that was a lot of feelings. So I didn't even want to believe this was true. But once Emily brought me a huge stack of peer-reviewed science,

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

and just be on your side and go, "Yeah! I can't believe that happened to you! I'm so on your side," for 15 minutes. Just that can give you enough of a release

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

They also asked, "Do you believe that stress is harmful for your health?" And then they used public death records to find out who died.

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

collaborating and, indeed, co-existing with others. That's why I believe our task isn't merely to improve schools, it's to redesign them for a new purpose.

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

It's equally wise to go for the stressful job so long as you believe that you can handle it, in some sense? KM: Yeah, and one thing we know for certain

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

and they're more open to abstract thinking. I believe that having a healthy and balanced confidence allows boys to feel good about who they are

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

Words so often cut us in two. I believe this, and you believe that. I voted for that person, you voted for this one.

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

The emotional or mental health club. Silence doesn't ask me to believe anything or to fret about non-believers.

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

that can be hard, if not harsh, and that work has led me to believe that we need a fundamentally different way

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome -- people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK?

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And it's the beginning of rational humanism, and people started to believe that creativity came completely from the self of the individual.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel, you know, like the font and the essence and the source

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

But maybe it doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And "Olé!" to you, nonetheless. I believe this and I feel that we must teach it. "Olé!" to you, nonetheless,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

I did it. I can't believe it. I

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

how words get popular and how quickly those words spread. I believe some of you might be familiar with this song. (Clears throat)

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

we could end up in a world where people might just blindly believe AI outputs. And I'm afraid this means that people will just be more likely

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

because what we will do is just ask an AI to double check for us. But are we really willing to blindly believe AI and give up our critical thinking?

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

And amazingly, doctors can prescribe any FDA-approved drug for any disease where they believe the benefit outweighs the risk, through something called off-label prescribing,

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

to go I believe in you Maria but maybe you should try this

and improved public health. We believe the same can be done with public safety, because racially equitable access to safety

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

people tended to do what their parents wanted them to do believe what their parents wanted them to believe love who

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more of us can do what we want to do believe what we want to believe and love who we want to love

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Now it’s down to 15 hours, and it’s on the way down still. So here's what I believe that the so-called climate realists are most wrong about.

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

are most wrong about. They don't believe that we, the people who live on this planet, have the capacity to make the changes necessary to save our future.

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

As our case is new, we must think anew." I believe that we as human beings have the capacity to recognize that our survival is at stake,

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

I have no goals. I just believe that anything is possible. Part of just being a dreamer

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

And collectively, this means that it is becoming harder and harder to believe anything that we read, see or hear online. I contend that we are in a global war for truth

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

Latif Nasser: We're doing rapid-fire questions, you ready? Roughly what percent of images online do you believe to be fake? Hany Farid: Depends on the platform.

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

being outcompeted by AI models they have reason to believe were trained on their work. The freelance platform Upwork wrote a white paper

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

for licensing to even be feasible. But this is harder and harder to believe in a world in which there is such a range of datasets

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

So this is all great stuff. But what if I told you that I believe that AI companions are potentially the most dangerous tech

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

talking to AI characters. And while I do believe that we will be able to build helpful AI companions for kids one day,

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

Researchers at Harvard are doing a longitudinal study on human flourishing, and I believe that we need what I call the human flourishing metric for AI. It's broader than just happiness.

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

and this will never happen again." I didn't believe him. I thought we'd have many, many years together to come.

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

So is AI real music? I believe that when it's in the hands of musicians, it can be.

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

The first is, is it deceptive? Could somebody believe this is actually real? Next, is there artistic intent behind it?

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

Now I'm a libertarian columnist, which means I believe in progress and creative destruction. But here’s something I also believe:

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

which means I believe in progress and creative destruction. But here’s something I also believe: The Luddites had a point.

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

we all have magic wands in our pockets. I believe I see a few of you waving them around right now. And I'm sure he'd have asked,

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

Beyond AI as an assistant, I believe that AI should be a tool for thought. AI should challenge, not obey.

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

AI should challenge, not obey. And I believe that right at this moment, we are at a critical juncture where the world of work is poised to be transformed by generative AI,

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

And while we've been primarily studying professional knowledge workers, we believe that these principles can extend to all aspects of AI use, including when we use it in our daily lives, our hobbies,

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

they're much more likely to persevere when they fail, because they don't believe that failure is a permanent condition. So growth mindset is a great idea for building grit.

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

it does have downsides. But I believe the long-term upsides are far greater, that progress is real.

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

Now I am a management consultant. And so there's one thing that we love and believe deeply. Say it with me if you know it.

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

trying to hold on and believe in ourselves, and I do not mean in a toxic way.