How native speakers pronounce “difference”

path and that will make all the difference my second story is about love and loss I was lucky I found what I love to

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Right after takeoff, a slight change in course is the difference between landing in Alaska or Fiji. Likewise, at 21 or 25 or even 29,

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One conflict that comes up a lot in my work is the difference in values between arriving on time and arriving looking and feeling your best.

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

when we decide to do things a little differently, we can avoid the difference between having a really challenging day as a couple

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

what if we instead embraced their differences, our difference in values, and release the pressure of doing what everyone else is doing?

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

One wanted to conquer the world -- make a difference -- another was afraid of rejection.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

to better align the spine. But as it turns out, which side you lie on may make a difference. For example, studies show that sleeping on the left side

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The right words can win and the wrong words huge difference. Five months ago, I stood before that podium

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

Consciousness, on the other hand, it's all about feeling and being. It's the difference between normal, wakeful awareness and the oblivion of general anesthesia.

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

WPR: And then what about friendships where there's not necessarily a difference in values, but maybe a distance,

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

it could be video conferencing with the camera off. And what I found was that there was no difference between in-person connections

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

And bolstering her social health made more of a difference than focusing solely on her physical and mental health ever could.

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

where you just keep working harder and harder for less and less sense that what you are doing is making any difference; and emotional exhaustion.

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

So, the main thing people need to begin with is that there is a difference between your stressors, the things that cause your stress,

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

And you recover from that, because your imagination doesn't know the difference between pummeling the stressors in your imagination

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

this one biological change could be the difference between a stress-induced heart attack at age 50

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

It seems amazing to me that a belief about stress can make so much difference to someone's life expectancy. How would that extend to advice,

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

one hour more than last year, by the way, does it make a difference? Why distinguish between interacting in person

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

But we do have evidence now, fresh evidence, that there is a difference. So let's look at some of the neuroscience.

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

Elizabeth Redcay, a neuroscientist at the University of Maryland, tried to map the difference between what goes on in our brains when we interact in person

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

talk to me later. So what's the difference? This is your brain on real social interaction.

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

This is your brain on real social interaction. What you're seeing is the difference in brain activity between interacting in person and taking in static content.

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

who shared the vision of opportunity and empowerment to make a difference in their communities, we've been able to not only lower blood pressure

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were as queasy about death as today's middle schoolers. But there is a crucial difference between "unalive" and "decease." And that's that we only got the word "unalive"

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

(Laughter) Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the wrong word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug.

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

Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the wrong word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug. That caption should be

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

And when you compound a number like that, it makes quite a difference. Here are all the past projections from the International Energy Agency

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

And even more dramatic is utility-scale batteries, 87 percent down. That's making a huge difference as well. But I have to say this.

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

promises to hold oil and gas producers accountable for their emissions. Data will make a difference, just as it did in Mexico City. And we’ve got momentum.

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

of emerging and reactive threats. Another big difference is that we design hardware for mass production using existing infrastructure and industrial base.

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

because I don’t want mines to be able to tell the difference between a school bus full of children and Russian armor.

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

And if you look at this, it's not at all obvious that there's any difference between those two patterns. But here, in this visualization of the noise,

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

And it did end up helping millions of people. Every day we see how our AI friends make a real difference in people's lives. There is a widower who lost his wife of 40 years

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

When the work came back, I calculated grades. What struck me was that IQ was not the only difference between my best and my worst students.

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

is like an oasis in a desert of people who are thirsty to know they're making a difference. Like my dad said,

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

which shifts how I think about Mondays, because there's a fundamental difference between a tough day, when you project it out into eternity, as I often do,

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

It looked like giving to charity made about the same difference for happiness as having twice as much income.

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

so I pulled out my credit card. I knew my donations would probably make a difference for someone somewhere, but going to the website of an effective charity

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

when people felt a real sense of connection with those they were helping and could easily envision the difference they were making in those individuals' lives.

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

that it can be a little hard to envision how your own small donation will make a difference. In contrast, Spread the Net offers donors a concrete promise:

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

You need to be able to envision how, exactly, your dollars are going to make a difference. Of course, the Group of Five program takes this idea to a whole new level.

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

When I asked it to come up with a diagram that shows the difference between intelligence and consciousness. Like how would you do that?

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

or it just saw that a lot of times in the training set. And of course like if you can’t tell the difference, how much do you care?

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

or the most scared people about AI. And the difference between feeling your work is being stolen from you and your future is being stolen from you,

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

CA: So, I think the world should help you figure out that model quickly. And I think it will make a huge difference actually. I want to switch topics quickly.

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

States has an enormous amount of power but the big difference is this is Trump saying this unilaterally right I mean

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you know, little old me, if I do one thing, really, what difference does it make?" How do you explain to people that they

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while others stayed together happily. What made the difference between the couples who were successful and the couples who were unsuccessful,

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

CA: Yeah, so I get the anger. There is a difference between a physical object, where if you steal it, that person doesn't have it,

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

you still have access to it. CC: Not under the law, there's no difference. CA: You know, I think there's traditionally a difference

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

CC: Not under the law, there's no difference. CA: You know, I think there's traditionally a difference in like, when an idea is out there,

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

>> Omar B asks about how you can tell the difference between sort of healthy independence and and maybe pushing a

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

between you and your certain special someone. The difference between couples who sustain a strong sexual connection and the ones who don't

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

And I saw a man on the moon for the first time. You see, the very difference between him and I is that I’d spent the first 10 years of my life in village South Africa.

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

And that when you're off by a single letter, one of billions, this can mean the difference between a healthy person and a person with a life-threatening disease.

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

and it would generate new sequences, one letter at a time. But there is one key difference. With chatbots, you can just read what it writes,

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

would the laws of physics push the AI out into society? There's a critical difference between believing it's inevitable, which is a self-fulfilling prophecy that you're fatalistic,

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

Maybe, like many of you. But I saw that the technologies that really made a difference were the ones that were built with and for the collective.

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

I bought a book on simplicity to try to find answers. And I did find a quote that made a big difference in my life, which was, "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality,"

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

They stay there out of fear. The trick is to learn to tell the difference between the kind of fear that says,

Forget the Corporate Ladder — Winners Take Risks | Molly Graham | TED · TED

their life expectancy is 89. And the difference is even more pronounced among men, who are expected to live about 11 years

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

because there simply wouldn't have been enough people on the planet to emit enough carbon into the atmosphere to make a meaningful difference. In a weird sense, climate change

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

But in my mind, this was my way to make a difference, to disrupt the status quo.

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

so it's not a question of ability. The difference is in how boys and girls approach a challenge. And it doesn't just end in fifth grade.

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

with sometimes just a semicolon making the difference between success and failure. Code breaks and then it falls apart,

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

and I think they can be happy and do great things. I don't know that any of that will make a difference, but I'm pretty confident it won't do them any harm,

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

are you curious how will you make a difference? And now that you know the power of curiosity to change the world,

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

We consider these techniques a form of ambient intelligence, like extra pairs of eyes that do make a difference. But I would like more interactive help for our patients, clinicians

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

So let's just say the accuracy in this room was not very high. This is a big difference in cognitive ability across languages, right? Where one group -- very distinguished group like you guys --

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

across this linguistic boundary. They're faster to be able to tell the difference between a light and dark blue.

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

then the voltage changes dramatically. So now I can do further experiments to see what the difference is between the wood and the metal,

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

And so I’ve become more active in taking care of my relationships, and it makes a big difference. So I would say that those are the two big things for me

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

So most moral philosophers, I think, would say that fundamentally, there's not a difference between intentional action and intentional inaction that leads to the same thing.

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"I'm just one in 7.8 billion people, I'm too small to make a difference." "I'm not smart enough."

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

Identity politics can be narcissistic. People extol a difference only because it's theirs. People narrow the world and function in discrete groups

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

When someone would say that something wasn't possible or had a difference of opinion, I immediately labeled them as blockers.

Ask Dumb Questions, Embrace Mistakes — and Other Lessons on Innovation | Dave Raggio | TED · TED

because that's commodifiable. So again, we have this difference between reality and representation, where they're actually constantly influencing one another.

Why Are People Starting to Sound Like ChatGPT? | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

Well, I think there's something in here that's a clue, a way forward. As journalists, we love difference. We love to fetishize difference.

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

As journalists, we love difference. We love to fetishize difference. But increasingly, in this confusing world,

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

something reveals itself. Story cannot end in difference. It's got to end in revelation.

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

A tradition of Sub-Saharan Africa as a place of negatives, of difference, of darkness, of people who, in the words of the wonderful poet Rudyard Kipling,

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Expecting some metabolic or DNA factor at work, they were shocked to learn that the only difference between the subjects that they could figure out

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

20 years ago, if someone had said to me, "John, do you really want to make a difference?" "Yeah, I want to make a difference."

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

"John, do you really want to make a difference?" "Yeah, I want to make a difference." He said, "You just start walking east;

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

(Laughter) "You’re going to make a difference, buddy." How could that be, how could that be?

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

How could doing such a simple thing like walking and not talking make a difference? Well, my time at the Coast Guard was a really good time.

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

of scientific-looking data and papers ready to argue their point. The key difference, though, is that science frequently requires that we update our beliefs about the world

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED

History offers an antidote to the idea of an inevitable clash of civilizations, showing how it's possible for us to live together with difference in multicultural communities,

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

(Applause) Now the difference between these two fires was a single, bold decision.

How to Make Big Decisions in Challenging Circumstances | Jonathan Reimer | TED · TED

the crowds that turned out the following day were much larger. Third, you don't have to be an activist to make a difference. We don't all need to get arrested protesting,

How to Be an “Apocalyptic Optimist” | Dana R. Fisher | TED · TED