How native speakers pronounce “common”

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(Laughter) What these things have in common is that kids will take a chance. If they don't know, they'll have a go.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

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(Laughter) What these things have in common is that kids will take a chance. If they don't know, they'll have a go.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Around the home, designate a place for things that are easily lost. Now, this sounds like common sense, and it is, but there's a lot of science to back this up,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

a person I was afraid of, a person I had nothing in common with, a person whose only intention was to

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

that they tell us, almost it's the most common thing we hear, we hear laughter in the hallways again.

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

We agreed not to dwell on our national and historical narrative -- there is no common ground to be found in the past. Instead, we focused on what you cannot afford to lose:

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

the future you want for your children. Because, you see, common ground does not begin with moral agreement -- it begins with self-interest.

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

nor an end to the occupation of the Palestinians. Then you seek that common ground -- that transaction -- a political solution within a regional framework.

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

rather than isolation. Once you find that common ground, you can build something

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

She's going to think you're some kind of creep. You probably don't even have anything in common with her, and you’ve got nothing to even start with, smarty pants.”

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

And from there, the conversation just flowed really easily. found things that we had in common, we talked about our families, our work, our hope for the future.

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

You might think that we learned about oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes from common cancers like breast cancer and prostate cancer

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

in almost every kind of cancer. But we didn't learn about it from common cancers. We learned about it when doctors Li and Fraumeni

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

if it happens twice in one family, is way too common in that family. The very fact that these are rare

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

but it's a little sad when a video can have an effect like that when it's about something as common as periods. Last February, I released a video on menstruation,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

This seemingly unsolvable loop is at the heart of insomnia, the world’s most common sleep disorder. Almost anything can cause the occasional restless night -

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

Approximately 8% of patients diagnosed with chronic insomnia are actually suffering from a less common genetic problem called delayed sleep phase disorder, or DSPD.

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

we believe have a net worth right now of a billion dollars or more. And they all have one thing in common. Who wants to know the secret

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

the "please stop," we need it to be specific. So kind of, one of the more common forms of general negative feedback people get is "You don't take enough initiative here."

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

They care about what you're like, what you have in common. So forget the details. Leave them out.

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

And then there's collective loneliness, which means I desire to be part of a group working towards a common goal. And this research on loneliness really suggests that, just like I said,

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

business leaders, senators, celebrities, cultural icons. And in every interview, I saw a common theme. What they learned during their biggest setback

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

The setback expert finishes her work and is hit with one of the most common career setbacks. Oh, I loved that job.

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

And now they're more open to sharing about their own. Number two is overlap, or finding things in common. As human beings, we like to feel like we belong,

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

As human beings, we like to feel like we belong, and having things in common with one another helps us bond. When I was younger,

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

I used to think that being in the same life stage was a prerequisite for having things in common, but it's just not true.

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

anything that could prompt conversation and engagement. All of these things can help people find things in common and help you bond.

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

For years I've been telling people, stress makes you sick. It increases the risk of everything from the common cold to cardiovascular disease.

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

where super longevity is common to both sexes. This is the blue zone in Sardinia,

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

It's a term many of you are familiar with. It comes from a parable that's very common in the public health community.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

Health is not just a personal responsibility or phenomenon. Health is a common good. It comes from our personal investment in knowing

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

But from patients suffering from insomnia, so one of the most common sleep disorders, we know that light therapy is beneficial.

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

If the brain and AI are doing nothing alike, have nothing in common, we won't be able to do this prediction task.

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

And that is true. But could it also be the AI and the brain share something in common? So we’ve done this scratch pad prediction task,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

And with that, I have just one final piece of slang for you. It's a common phrase used by younger people when we finish a long-winded explanation of something.

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

might as well have started with this little critter. It's the last common ancestor of all vertebrates. We are all descended from it.

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

A 3D fantasy world that you can see being explored here. What do they have in common? They weren't created by humans in the traditional sense.

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

Don't take it too personally. What I mean is that lying is very common and it is now well-established that we lie on a daily basis.

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

Little Red Riding Hood Sleeping Beauty all these stories have one thing in common the central figure leaves a world that

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through something called off-label prescribing, and off-label prescribing is actually very common. In fact, one in four prescriptions written every single day in the US is off-label.

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

united by the shared values and common resolve that we've shared for the better part of a century. Our defenders, the men and the women

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

to be getting the right information at the right time. That means they need a common view of the battlefield. The way you can present that view to a human

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

Alright, what else can we learn? Surprisingly, shadows have a lot in common with vanishing points. Here, what I've done is I've annotated a point on a shadow

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

looked at 47 large language models released between 2019 and 2023, they found that 64 percent of them were trained, in part, on Common Crawl, a dataset that includes copyrighted works,

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

that is, in which no copyright exists, like the 500-billion-word dataset Common Corpus. You can expand this further with synthetic data,

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

One poll from the AI Policy Institute, in April, asked people about the common policy among AI companies of training on publicly available data.

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

for others it's skydiving but for me all Leisure has one thing in common it exists for its own sake

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How we imagine our happiness, that differs from one another, but it's already a lot that we have all in common, that we want to be happy.

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

I wrote my dad a letter. And the theme of the letter reflected a common thread that I had noticed in his long life.

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

with a network of hundreds of volunteers keeping it stocked. What these stories have in common, some of them are much more elaborate

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

and some of them are literally just a fleeting moment, but what they have in common is that each one inspired at least one person who was watching.

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

Studies have shown that ENTJs are the most common personality types among CEOs. So I had it in me.

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

free trade architecture or promoting democracy or common values of rule of law it's much more transactional much

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

very important thing for what still is the world's largest common market well Ian I on behalf of our

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

That means that intercultural partners have limited common ground to work with here. And if one partner doesn't understand the joke,

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

food. What do they all have in common? They're all animal products.

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

Julie: The third horseman is defensiveness. That's the most common one. And that's when we act like an innocent victim.

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

and apply some of the tools to save what are, you know, crazy wasted costs in government, probably by common consent. And that the key to do that

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

on the basis it will be long-term and is recognized either legally or in common law. But for the record,

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

more than any other time in history. Single-parent families are more common after love marriages. Birthrates are of particular importance to governments

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

over multiple decades have two things in common. Before I can tell my friends what those two things are,

How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski

we are one people with one destiny and the common enemy, that's why it really stresses me to see our hearts so tattered,

"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

because obviously, it's four in the morning, the destination is not common. And then he sees this giant black box that's basically the size of me.

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED

And so what would it take to illuminate this narrow path? Well, it starts with common knowledge about frontier risks. If everybody building AI knew the latest understanding

Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED · TED

an 18th century Enlightenment philosopher, who said, "Common sense is not so common." Turns out this quote couldn't be more relevant