How native speakers pronounce “country”

offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country throughout the campus every poster every label on

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

issue was a photograph of an early morning Country Road the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

(Laughter) because she was the main reason we were leaving the country. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

And this concept of drone as first responder is taking off across the country. So it started with a few agencies.

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

Identity capital begets identity capital. So now is the time for that cross-country job, that internship, that startup you want to try.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

myself, with a team of about 50 people, including some of the best science teachers in the country, have been secretly working on a full science curriculum,

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

is a matter of public policy. Across the country, many schools are starting around 7:30 a.m. or earlier, despite the fact that major medical organizations recommend

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

If one company pauses for safety, another one takes the market. If a country stops to regulate, another one races ahead. Every AI founder has had the same conversation with themselves

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

teens who skimp out on sleep are at increased risk for a host of physical health problems that plague our country, including obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

which is to start middle and high schools no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Districts around the country, big and small, who have made this change, they’ve found that these fears are often unfounded

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

The president dusts off a 1977 law and imposes tariffs on virtually every country on earth. No congressional vote --

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

I get to, the son of immigrants, remind the country of what it's about. I get to defend my parents' vision of America."

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

The second thing I needed was connection to information at scale. I assembled the most relentless legal team in the country. They stress-tested every argument until only the best ones survived.

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

a leader for peace, because I knew that while I was leading my country, no matter how small my country is,

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

because I knew that while I was leading my country, no matter how small my country is, we could have a powerful voice in the world.

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

to give that contribution for peace. These past five years have not just been years of leading my country defending democracy,

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

So that's the lesson that I've learned, that no matter how small you are as a country, it is not just the political or military

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

(Applause) is a tiny country -- you just said this. Fewer than two million people.

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

on how these decisions are made today that may not impact necessarily my country very much, but they do impact humanity at the much larger level.

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

The next breakthrough can come from anyone, any country, any cafe.

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

How could anyone believe that leaders were committed to girls' education when they handed over an entire country to the men who pointed a gun at my head and pulled the trigger?

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

I called Afghan women I knew, activists who were working around the country. They were frightened, too.

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

even if it means risking their lives. Across the country today, they are listening to lessons on the radio,

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

His best friend, who he had known since high school, who had moved across the country to be near him, to live with him, in fact.

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

Maybe you're both cat people, or you both love country music. You both went gorilla trekking in Uganda,

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

Today, one in four DC elementary schools is adopting this approach, and it's spreading to more than 100 schools across the country. Yeah.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

From Brooklyn to DC to North Dakota, in 500 schools across the country, we've seen what happens

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

and they became some of the most legendary civil rights activists this country has ever seen. Women like Diane Nash.

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

not unlike the civil rights movement teach-ins. And we're going to go all across the country. It is the biggest announcement this week:

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

the impact of this inequality is killing Black women at higher and faster rates than any other group in the country. But that is about to change.

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

Some of you in here, the influencers, shared the story. Urban Radio blasted it across the country. VG: Even the E! News channel interrupted a story about the Kardashians --

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

and I've had the privilege of meeting many of them, in Los Angeles and in other parts of the country and around the world,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

I spoke with a consultant who took a new job moved his family across the country then started a few days after the Great Recession

Superpower

a Woppaburra man from the Great Barrier Reef. His people have been caring for their sea country for millennia. Now when Bob talks to me of his country,

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

His people have been caring for their sea country for millennia. Now when Bob talks to me of his country, he says, “Country is sick,

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

Now when Bob talks to me of his country, he says, “Country is sick, country is crying.”

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

he says, “Country is sick, country is crying.” But with this technology,

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

his community is empowered to be the first responders to heal their sea country by blending this modern innovation with their ancient knowledge.

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

attended celebrations in the projects to mark the new beginning. The peace treaty inspired similar agreements across the country and lasted for 12 years.

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

Whole regions of the world are becoming uninsurable. We see this in my country where people are having their insurance canceled. They can't get it renewed.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

from the burning of fossil fuels for both energy and petrochemicals. Let me show you an example from my country. “Cancer Alley” is the stretch that runs from New Orleans

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

Well, he really should know better. You know, Upton Sinclair wrote in my country, years ago,

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

is 400 times larger than the potential energy from fossil fuels. Every single country in Africa could have 100 percent energy access

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

using less than one percent of its land. Most, including the country we're in, less than 0.1 percent of their land.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

have the capacity to make the changes necessary to save our future. The greatest president in my country's history, Abraham Lincoln, said, “At a time of dire crisis,

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

So the official data on how much solar is installed in Pakistan is that there's less than three gigawatts in the country. But more solar modules left China for Pakistan in 2022 alone.

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

and temperatures reached 52 degrees Celsius So this is a country where people really need fans and air conditioning to survive.

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

as much as it is in the United States. This is a country that really needs power. Now, the good thing about solar panels is that they generate in the daytime.

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

We've drawn the attention of folks like the National Science Foundation, who have chosen us as one of 10 innovation communities across the country, and it was really the organization that I needed

A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TED · TED

I wanted to solve a problem that was being ignored, one that would shape the future of this country and the world. Despite the incredible technological progress

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

So, for example, here is my cover of the 50 Cent song "In Da Club" as performed by an AI version of country music legend Conway Twitty. (Music)

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

This picture happens to be Toronto, but this project actually happened in dozens of cities across the country and across the world.

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

I sat down at a restaurant with my parents, Sri Lankan immigrants who came to the country poor, nothing in their pockets,

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

There are unwritten rules we tend to follow. The rules are very different depending on what country you're in, what culture you're in.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

but for 40 years, Canada was the only country in the world that allowed private citizens to sponsor refugees.

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

Leadership the United States is by far the most powerful country in the world and it is not interested in providing

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

has come in to try to provide any level of stability in that country and never mind just for the Afghans themselves but

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

mean at the end of the day he's the most powerful leader of any country in the world that's important

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

But one factor we cannot forget is the linguistic environment where a couple chooses to live or the country. Now in Australia, a native speaker like my husband

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

So it is quite traditional in my country to walk into a room and to greet. But not just to greet.

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

And then whatever comes out of it, rather than hoarding it for one company or one country to do it and share it with the world,

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

in fact, the thing that a lot of people want to do today is create "sovereign AI" which means an AI that works for your country, culture and represents you.

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

and we have to choose to use it for humanity's good, not for one country's good. But there was a third part to the plan.

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

is going to be the proportions that people are predicting. It could get to 100-plus million people affected just in this country. And globally, it will be billions of people.

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

I'm 26 years old. And I don't know if I have what it takes to stomach motherhood in this country. See, over the years, America has taught me more about parenting

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

A different way to think about it, as Dario Amodei says, that AI is like a country full of geniuses in a data center. So imagine there's a map and a new country shows up on the world stage,

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

that AI is like a country full of geniuses in a data center. So imagine there's a map and a new country shows up on the world stage, and it has a million Nobel Prize-level geniuses in it.

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

every 16-year-old can go on GitHub, every developing world country can get their own AI model trained on their own language and culture.

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

to extend their run time. So we don't just have a country of Nobel Prize geniuses in a data center. We have a million deceptive,

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

the top-cited one: overreliance on systems we don't understand. We talked to people across the country, from a veteran in the Midwest to a young teacher in the South.

How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other | Divya Siddarth | TED · TED

He was then threatened. He and his wife had to flee Poland, bounce from country to country until they landed in the US with next to nothing,

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

a little bit more for women. But life expectancy in this country is only 78.

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

the rate of middle age mortality is a fraction of what it is in this country. We found our first Blue Zone about 125 miles

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

It's sitting there printed on every carton of milk in every grocery store in the country, right? Pasteurization.

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

the Wall Street Journal snapped pictures of me on election day, and CNBC called it one of the hottest races in the country. I raised money from everyone I knew,

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

This whole project has become unique -- so, no other country in the world is tracking generations of children in quite this detail.

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

Or the Syrian refugee who dared show her love for her new country by building an app to help Americans get to the polls.

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

they will not defer their dreams. And those dreams have never been more important for our country. For the American economy, for any economy to grow,

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

At 88, she has saved 12,000 girls, and she has changed the culture in the country. (Applause)

Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age | TED · TED

Jean Béliveau jumped at the opportunity. For the past three years, Béliveau had been walking from country to country, with the goal of circumnavigating the globe on foot.

Do you really need to take 10,000 steps a day? - Shannon Odell

a few years later, where country of South Korea and many other parts of Asia and in fact the world went crazy over -- over what?

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

It definitely hurts! I'm denied the right to speak my own language in my own country? Where could this happen?

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

In fact, one survey found that almost 80 percent of smartphone users in this country have never even replaced their phone batteries,

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

The second time I experienced heartbreak was in November of 2019, as I watched my country go up in flames. As one billion animals were incinerated by the inferno.

Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | TED · TED

they were also less thrilled than I'd expected about the reform process going on in their country. Ma Thida said,

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

Now, I love science, don't get me wrong. My parents emigrated from a war-torn country, came to America,

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

And that simple thought led me to a million conversations. I started talking to musicologists about country music as a whole. This genre that I've always felt so

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

with Porter Wagoner. 1967, she joins his band, he is the biggest thing in country music, she is a backup singer, a nobody.

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

as just an American, living in a country struggling to hold, that every story I tell has got to find the third.

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

means "Where were you born and raised and educated?" then I'm entirely of that funny little country known as England,

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

the average resident today is what used to be called a foreigner, somebody born in a very different country. And I've always felt that the beauty of being surrounded by the foreign

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

and in many ways I think of myself now as African. Although I still get quite irritable when Africa is referred to as a country, the most recent example being my otherwise wonderful flight

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

while people eat potatoes and onions, cabbages and carrots. In my country, this loss of food is colossal.

What foods did your ancestors love? Aparna Pallavi

and they now drive 20 percent less than the rest of the country. The typical Portland citizen drives

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

which is five times what you saw anywhere else in the country, or, I should say, of the national average. So on the one hand, a city saves money for its residents

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

Briefly mentioning, we have an asthma epidemic in this country. You probably haven't thought that much about it.

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

has been a classically Arcadian movement. To become more environmental, we move into the country, we commune with nature, we build suburbs.

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

is that the right way to measure CO2? There are only so many people in this country at any given time, and we can choose to live where perhaps

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

and it's being done now in more than a few cities, around the globe and in our country. I take some solace from Winston Churchill,

Jeff Speck: The walkable city