How native speakers pronounce “closest”

told uh I never graduated from college and uh this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

and thankfully I'm fine now this was the closest I've been to facing death and I hope it's the closest

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

now this was the closest I've been to facing death and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades having

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

so sometimes I think I married my husband because he was the closest chair to me at 30." Where are the twentysomethings here?

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

And one time when I was about 12 years old, one of my closest friends finally worked up the courage to ask me about it. And I could tell she was so nervous.

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

between Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes. Today, we keep our closest animal ancestors, chimpanzees, in reserves

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

I live not only with my husband but also two of my closest friends. One of them we kind of like had a courtship process

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

or when I'm struggling to find the words to write a eulogy hours after losing one of my closest friends. Of course, stressing over spilled milk

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

When your mind is silent, wrote Thomas Merton, who, as a monk lived on closest terms with silence for 27 years, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real.

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

far the wealthiest person in the world but also is the closest adviser spending the most time with Trump and so you know

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

If you cannot flawlessly communicate with the person you want to be closest to in this world, how does that affect your relationship?

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

And so, you know, for me, when I think of wonder, poetry is the thing that brings me closest to wonder. I wrote my first poem when I was 10.

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

And I came this close to the edge of the precipice. It's the closest I've ever come. And the only reason I took my finger off the trigger

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

in the 21st century. Crater Lake in southern Oregon, which is my closest national park, is a beautiful example of a landscape that seems to be coming out of the past.

Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris

If somebody suddenly asks me, "Where's your home?" I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

My cousin Polle died because he could not get adequate healthcare. One of my closest friends, Okoloma, died in a plane crash because our fire trucks did not have water.

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