How native speakers pronounce “decades”

facing death and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades having lived through it I can now say this to

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

And I was told not to worry. But in a few decades, with billions of dollars in subsidies, we have dewilded the ocean,

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

I have spent the last four decades in the reality of conflict. As a child,

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

and I lost hope. And for nearly two decades, I dedicated my career to working with people affected by conflict,

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

The door closes and 76 people sit down, carrying decades of grievances and recent loss. No one trusts anyone.

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

There's a fundamental paradox right at the core of human life. On the one hand, decades of research have shown that we are highly social creatures

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

Later, it was a telephone exchange. And for the last few decades, it's been a computer. And this most recent metaphor has been extremely powerful.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

because we were there -- I mean, a few decades ago. And today we are given the opportunity

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

(Applause) It takes years, it takes decades. In the case of our nation, it took centuries.

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

And this is them with their teenage son on vacation. Joe and John have been best friends for many decades. When Joe was struggling with alcohol and drug use,

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

So with the school's founders, we stitched together decades of practice and research, career-connected learning, project-based learning,

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

But realizing this vision has never been easy. For decades, we've been trapped between two extremes: top-down reforms that can ignore local realities

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

More black men die from high blood pressure than from anything else, even though decades of medical wisdom and science have demonstrated that death from high blood pressure can be prevented

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

Care tasks are morally neutral. Now, I know that if you've been watching Martha Stewart for decades -- (Laughter)

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

Well, we recently built the world's most accurate model of the retina. It could reproduce two decades of experiments on the retina. So this is fantastic.

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

I'd like to discuss just one of the two decades of experiments that I mentioned. And we're going to do this experiment on you right now.

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

We were able to do this not only for Newton's first law violations, but for the two decades of experiments that our model reproduced. And so this one model reproduces two decades' worth of neuroscience

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

but for the two decades of experiments that our model reproduced. And so this one model reproduces two decades' worth of neuroscience and also makes some new predictions.

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

But remember, it took us several decades from the invention of movies to be able to make films that stand the test of time.

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

to be able to make films that stand the test of time. It took us a few decades after the invention of computers, to figure out how to make computer games

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

The fears of machines replacing humans are not new. This cartoon anticipates by five decades what's now called the alignment problem,

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

the idea that he should always be busy after he retired from four decades as a surgeon and tried to make amends with

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was turned into overdrive, and that a decades-old transplant drug might be able to turn it off. It had never been used before for my disease,

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

And you know, the fact that these scientists were absolutely correct decades ago, when they predicted these exact consequences

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

Let's bring this home, Eric. You've navigated decades of technological change. For everyone that's navigating this AI transition,

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

More troops, more tanks, more firepower. But over the last few decades, the defense industry has spent far too long handcrafting exquisite,

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

I mean, we've been in this world of systems that act out our will autonomously for decades. And so the point I would make to people

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

and I'm starting to think about what it could mean for the future. We thought AI would happen in decades or centuries, but it might be just in a few years.

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

it watching it or talking about it decades later hockey remains a big part of my life

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confidence in others; a many-decades-long marriage; a family, a home.

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

For much of her life, she had this complicated relationship with her mom. She was holding on to decades of resentment. Some of it was tied up in her mom's alcoholism.

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

and putting away enough honey that he knew wouldn't spoil so that we would have it for decades. Or planting trees around the ranch

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

it was a drug called leucovorin. It was developed for patients on a form of chemotherapy decades ago, and then used along with another form of chemotherapy decades ago.

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

It was developed for patients on a form of chemotherapy decades ago, and then used along with another form of chemotherapy decades ago. Turns out that a fraction of children have antibodies

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

since No Child Left Behind, it's really been decades in the making. Um, one of

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

the Journal of Pediatrics two years ago. And it showed that over the decades, like from the 50s to now, as kids

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

how do couples, you know, sustain a strong sexual connection over multiple decades?" I'm a sex educator, which is why my friends ask me questions like this,

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

that couples who sustain strong sexual connections over multiple decades have two things in common.

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

that live in and on our bodies. For decades, scientists studied bacteria one organism at a time, as if each type of bacteria behaved independently.

CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think | Jennifer Doudna | TED · TED

a year preceded by a score of the same, so as in two decades before, we wiped our eyes,

Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016? | TED · TED

which are all part of our common sense understanding about how the world works. However, the AI field for decades has considered common sense as a nearly impossible challenge.

Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid | Yejin Choi | TED · TED

And that kind of institutional innovation is going to be increasingly important in the decades to come, because all around the world right now,

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

that suggests that we can just blow past that boundary and live for decades longer, maybe even indefinitely. I'm not saying this is going to happen, but it is on the table.

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

to have high blood pressure, and then decades down the line, more likely to have a failing memory, poor health and even to die earlier.

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

and eternally young. What have I lost in the last decades? People, of course,

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

are you curious what are you going to do with all those decades of brimming good health? And now that you know you could impact the telomeres of others,

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

we teamed up with Rui Peredo, renowned whale biologist who spent decades studying sperm whales. These giants can dive to over a mile deep to hunt,

A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean | Eric Stackpole | TED · TED

So I'm more familiar with chess than with Go. And for decades, thousands and thousands of AI experts worked on building

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

to search for new, undiscovered fundamental particles. Its design and construction took decades of work by thousands of physicists from around the globe,

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

we would be terrible scientists if we did. No, we spend the next couple of decades exploring, mapping out the territory,

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

Now, since that time, scientists have tried for decades to figure out how to create a blight-resistant chestnut tree.

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

there's still an outer world of homophobia that it will take decades to address. Someday, being gay will be a simple fact,

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

I'm right there with you, because frankly, if I hadn't seen the evidence for myself, decades of evidence for myself, I am fairly sure that I wouldn't believe it either.

You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them | Lisa Feldman Barrett

but I find this to be a really empowering and inspiring message, and the fact that it's backed up by decades of research makes me also happy as a scientist.

You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them | Lisa Feldman Barrett

(Laughter) Over the decades, I've grown closer to gunpowder and mastered more techniques.

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

(Explosion) After decades of attempts around the world, this concept was finally realized

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

So instead, they argued that slavery should be phased out gradually, over many decades. Well it’s an excuse we hear repeatedly today

Lessons From History for a Better Future | Roman Krznaric | TED · TED

In the absence of this disruptive radical flank movement, it might have taken decades longer for abolition to enter the statute books than if left in the hands of the reformist white elite.

Lessons From History for a Better Future | Roman Krznaric | TED · TED

If our civilization is going to bend rather than break as we face the turbulence of the coming decades, we need to develop what I call temporal intelligence,

Lessons From History for a Better Future | Roman Krznaric | TED · TED