How native speakers pronounce “call”

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Then one night after one of these live streams, I got a call from a zookeeper friend about this red-tailed hawk who had been hit by a car, and he needed help.

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

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Then one night after one of these live streams, I got a call from a zookeeper friend about this red-tailed hawk who had been hit by a car, and he needed help.

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

girl so my parents who were on a waiting list got a call in the middle of the night asking we've got an unexpected

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and I started live-streaming Bean's rehabilitation process. So I would call him from his perch to my glove, and the people watching my stream

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

figuring that in the morning, on the way to the airport, I could call my contractor and ask him to fix it. This was going to be expensive,

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worrying about the hole in the window, and a mental note that I had to call my contractor, and the freezing temperatures,

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Richer more creative mode of thought that psychologists call slow thinking only kicks in surprise surprise when you

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books, they also help us develop and preserve what I like to call a long-format brain.

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is before she has one." That's what psychologists call an "Aha!" moment. That was the moment I realized, 30 is not the new 20.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

Newspapers talk about the changing timetable of adulthood. Researchers call the 20s an extended adolescence. Journalists coin silly nicknames for twentysomethings

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

that comes after the words "In case of emergency, please call ..." She was nearly hysterical when she looked at me and said,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

very short videos. Young people call it brain rot, which is a funny term,

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So, here's the first principle of what we might call techno-skepticism. Protect brain development through puberty.

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And we need that today more than ever. I like to call this style of teaching “hiding the vegetables.” (Laughter)

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Then, as the body tries to pull air through, these tissues vibrate, creating the sound we call snoring. This is also why people with sleep apnea are often told to avoid this position.

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is not as dangerous is to actually let humans be humans. Be distracted, make your phone call, do the thing you want to be doing.

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and the planet changed faster than life could keep up with. Some scientists call what followed the first mass extinction event in Earth's history.

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

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is the reason everyone in this room is alive today. Biologists call these moments major transitions when separate entities stop competing and start building a new whole.

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well, this is a no brainer, right? So why have we as a society failed to heed this call? Delaying start times presents many logistical challenges.

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And if your immune system fails to catch it, we call that cancer. The thing about untreated cancer is it succeeds for a while.

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is causing some people to become obsessed with it, so much so that it’s leading to a condition some call orthosomnia: a preoccupation with the constant need to achieve perfect sleep.

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why don't I tell you a little bit about what I was like as a child? So, I was what you might call a gross kid. In fact, my love of science itself

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Even during World War II, our nation gave an example of what we call “besa.” It's a code of promise.

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But the bigger the fight, the bolder you have to be. What is happening in Afghanistan is a wake-up call for all of us. Because the Taliban's cruelty against women and girls

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Here is a sense of what Justice Kennedy wrote: “Marriage responds to the universal fear that a lonely person might call out only to find no one there."

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And the kinds of friends that I spoke to, they don't just have a weekly phone call. They're friends like these.

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Don't say that. Instead, you want to use what we call a collaborative question. This formula means that it will take you two minutes to create your ask,

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to gobble up huge amounts of information, most of which on this particular topic is what researchers call ... Crap.

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because in a couple minutes, I'm actually going to randomly call on someone based on your seat to have you come up

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

(Laughter) How many of you, if I did call on you, would walk up here, you would grin through gritted teeth like this

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Mid-meditation, I put my hand on my heart, and while I definitely was not going to call myself "sweetie," I did silently say to myself,

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So often these kinds of interactions that take the form of what I’ll call “anxious niceness,” they involve a lot of compliments,

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and then down you go. The vastly superior alternative is what I call the cheesy upward spiral. This one was drawn by a professional.

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represent a kind of amateur unified field theory of love. I call it “Me, A Love Story.” (Laughter)

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So those behaviors I opened with of people fidgeting, engaging in what we call a brittle smile, avoiding eye contact,

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

So luckily, I am going to help you with that a little bit today. But the other reason has to do with something I like to call the “paradox of people.”

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this idea of first, assuming that people like you and then overcoming what you call covert avoidance or that urge to sort of mentally check out when you're meeting someone new.

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All these anchoring, grounding experiences of our lives that we call home. But we also have an equally strong need -- men and women --

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into one relationship, or what we today like to call a passionate marriage, used to be a contradiction in terms.

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If you're feeling really ambitious, after this talk, go outside and make a phone call. I know, you're not a phone person,

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or were you chatting through audio? And audio could be a phone call, it could be video conferencing with the camera off.

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and give someone else the opportunity to share more in return. For instance, if you're on a remote call, you're on a Zoom call with a remote team member,

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

For instance, if you're on a remote call, you're on a Zoom call with a remote team member, and they haphazardly ask

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So a couple of years ago, a woman I know who I'll call Maya, went through a lot of big changes in a short amount of time.

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and pace so you can create what I call sustainable ambition. So what's the secret sauce?

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adapt and move forward. The second step is becoming aware of what I call your time bank. Now when you're frugal with your time,

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Instead of reading news headlines, write a thank-you card. Instead of listening to a podcast, call a family member. Maya put this into practice

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I was terrified that she would not be OK or that I might need to call for emergency medical treatment during the pandemic.

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affect our ability to engage in healthful behaviors. When the world around us is what we might call an “obesogenic environment” --

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It makes me cringe even more to imagine walking through life as someone who allows other people to call her the wrong name. Both of them are a risk.

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And at the edge, you're also going to find what I like to call ick moments. When you're wincing and cringing and going "ick!"

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

So I have another story. I was on a call the other day with a client. She is the head of HR for a pretty big company.