How native speakers pronounce “broke”

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

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So, desperate and freezing cold, I found a large rock and I broke through the basement window, cleared out the shards of glass,

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(Laughter) But the pattern finally broke. When I held my son and told him to rest,

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I hit my head on my desk. I broke my cheekbone, I got five stitches on my right eye. And I began the journey of rediscovering the value of sleep.

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And we started trying, and we, like, broke down this 30-year barrier of, you know, societal and family pressure not to, like, feel our feelings around each other.

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bam I was hit by a passing sedan I broke my left femur that day the largest bone in your body I spent the

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But ask my wife, Ashley, that broke me. I think what happened is it kind of shattered

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in 1982, there was a a miniseries done on him that broke all ratings records. And you know the news and the media are

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descended from freedom fighters who broke their chains and changed the world they call me and these are words i

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Finally, a fifth marker: volatility. (Video) Orange 1: I'd be sad if we broke up. Orange 2: I'd be sad too. (#thatslove)

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Orange 2: I'd be sad too. (#thatslove) Orange 1: I'd so depressed if we ever broke up. I'd throw myself off this step.

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Now sometimes it was a very scary adventure, like being broke from the age of 40 to 45. But even still, I wouldn’t trade that for the safe and settled version,

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You take an event like this, an accident. In English, it's fine to say, "He broke the vase." In a language like Spanish,

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In a language like Spanish, you might be more likely to say, "The vase broke," or, "The vase broke itself."

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you might be more likely to say, "The vase broke," or, "The vase broke itself." If it's an accident, you wouldn't say that someone did it.

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In English, quite weirdly, we can even say things like, "I broke my arm." Now, in lots of languages,

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English speakers will remember who did it, because English requires you to say, "He did it; he broke the vase." Whereas Spanish speakers might be less likely to remember who did it

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and I just show you someone breaking a vase, and I say, "He broke the vase," as opposed to "The vase broke," even though you can witness it yourself,

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you will punish someone more, you will blame someone more if I just said, "He broke it," as opposed to, "It broke."

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you will blame someone more if I just said, "He broke it," as opposed to, "It broke." The language guides our reasoning about events.

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But even I wouldn't know where to start in terms of testing elements on my phone if it broke. And phones are just one example of the many devices that we depend upon

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But Rich did not propose to Kathy that night. He broke up with her. As deeply as he cared for Kathy -- and he did --

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One of the most common tendencies we have when our heart is broken is to idealize the person who broke it. We spend hours remembering their smile,

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the students simply couldn't recognize when or how often their arguments broke down. The Dunning-Kruger effect isn't a question of ego blinding us to our weaknesses.

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