How native speakers pronounce “concept”

death was a useful but purely intellectual concept no one wants to die even people who want to go to heaven don't want to

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

My guess is, for many of you, drone is a scary concept. It might evoke images of weapons in Ukraine,

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

This is from San Francisco. Very different application but same concept. Responding to a 911 incident.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

I probably wouldn't want to steal a car either. And this concept of drone as first responder is taking off across the country.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

to get better information is super impactful. But the same kind of concept applies to drone delivery. So companies like Zipline and Wing are using dock drones

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

But there's another layer to why we define stuff as gross. As humans, we've sort of extended the concept of disgust to morality. So, the psychologist Paul Rozin would say

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

So what should we tell single people rather than "get married?" Let's start by expanding the concept of significant other. It originally included family and deep friendships,

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

that you shared in "The Atlantic" where you talked about the concept of super friends. So what makes someone a super friend,

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

of our free choice, of our preferences, of our identity -- desire that has become a central concept as part of modern love and individualistic societies.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

And it's the poetic of that language that I'm interested in, which is why I began to explore this concept of erotic intelligence. You know, animals have sex.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

Let's take another look at the Rizzler song. The lyric "I just want to be your sigma" refers to the concept of a sigma male, which incels use to describe their desired position

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

that could also be repurposed for me." This concept of repurposing isn't new. You've probably all heard of Viagra before, right?

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

and it's so revolutionary that it even revolutionizes the very concept of a revolution, because the normal revolution

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

SA: Can I say one more thing on that? I do think this concept of we need to define rigorous testing for models,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

Vertical farming is no longer some fluffy futuristic concept, but it's already here as we speak today to change

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

I really don't. But I love the concept. Maybe that's the ending,

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

Maybe there's another drug made for another disease. It was just that simple of a concept: these things work, maybe there's something else that could work.

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

from some overarching philosophical discussion about the concept of time and location. It was just practicality.

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

This need rendered local solar times too imprecise and necessitated our modern day concept of time zones. I'm a historian,

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

I had to open it up and show him it's a humanoid robot to ease his mind. But this brings up the concept of transport regulations for humanoid robotics, right?

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

for a very long time, but it's always been an abstract mathematical concept. I mean, just look around you -- you at the back, look around --

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

After decades of attempts around the world, this concept was finally realized as 29 footprint fireworks

A Firework Ladder to the Sky — and the Magic of Explosive Art | Cai Guo-Qiang | TED · TED

But this is the opportunity that I see. The concept of global citizenship, self-evident in its logic but until now impractical in many ways,

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans