How native speakers pronounce “done”

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It was like they were doing it with me, sort of, which was the coolest thing that I've ever done. And then eventually,

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

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It was like they were doing it with me, sort of, which was the coolest thing that I've ever done. And then eventually,

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

the number needed to treat is 49. That's right, 49 surgeries are done for every one person who's helped. And the side effects in that case occur in 50 percent of the patients.

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

96 percent of the casualties they inflicted on Russian forces were done via drone strikes. Now this is a terrifying new reality on the battlefield.

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

This is no small job, but when it's done right, the outcome is both beautiful and enduring.

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

And one of those studies was done by Meta. But what I've learned in the last 2

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

And it's emotional. And I could have said and done things that would come back to haunt me.

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

and you can do it because you control you. So get ’er done. (Cheers and applause)

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

we need to protect them from the damage being done in the digital present. >>

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

Everything else comes later. So let me tell you what we've done differently, because this is where the old peacemaking toolbox often misfires.

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

30-minute train ride just went like that. I was done, and I got up to leave, and she stopped me and she said, "Thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me this morning."

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

And by the way, I don't think they've ever done burger refill. (Laughter)

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

and on the third try the professor was very impressed. He was like, "No one has done this before." And I came in prepared with powerpoints and my lesson.

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

What are the unknowns? What are the experiments that are being done? Do this little exercise with me.

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

for 15 years, 95 percent of the teachers said that when we're done, they would want this to be their full science curriculum.

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

I said, "Why, you know the right thing to do as well as I do. You haven't done anything wrong." He said, "Please, just look after this patient for me."

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

He was embarrassed -- not by what he had done, but by the conversation that he had had,

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

We've gotten really favorable sort of reviews in the reports that have been done there. We've also partnered with people

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

asking the Supreme Court to do something it had never done in its history: declare a president’s four-trillion-dollar signature initiative unconstitutional.

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

has declared a signature initiative of the president unconstitutional. I was hired to do what no lawyer had done in 237 years. My first thought?

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

cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, or CBT-I, which is typically done under the guidance of a specialist sleep psychologist. But it can take weeks to see benefits from CBT-I,

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

of any medicinal cannabis product as a treatment for insomnia that's ever been done. And the results are really exciting.

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

And plenty of people have done really silly or dangerous things after having cannabis. However, a lot of our understanding

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

there's actually still a lot we don't know about periods. There's a lot of basic research that still hasn't been done. In part, that's just because there weren't a lot of scientists in the field

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

Sleep isn't lost time, or just a way to rest when all our important work is done. Instead, it's a critical function,

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

and now they have a real product. And almost all of it was just done via the phone. In China,

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

Let me show you how it works. Past performance is what you've already done that matters. Future vision is something that everyone in the room wants.

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

come in with an offer for a negotiation, tell them what they could have done better next time. And I think we all kind of know what it feels like

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

So imagine it's the case that you just had sex with someone for the first time. OK, we're all there, we've done a lot of mentalizing today. And you turn to the person and you say,

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

which means you may not have had a history of healthy relationships, but you've done the work on yourself to develop a sense of security, right? Remember, this isn't --

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

When I returned, I was told the people who replaced me had done such a good job. Didn't they deserve these opportunities now?

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

Not temporarily, but indefinitely? I agreed, they had done a great job, and I had all the respect in the world for them,

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

build stronger connections with others. But none of them are effective unless they are done authentically. And this is, for most people, the hardest part.

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

in order to get the job. Maybe you've done that too. And if you have,

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

and makes things even more awkward long term -- been there, done that -- maybe you'll try owning it

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

So that's why they don't want to share it with me" or, "I'm not done with med school yet. That must be why they're not sharing this information."

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

We don't have a one-stop shop, a physical facility to get all of this work done. And people are looking to us, the Female Athlete Program,

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

EN: If you feel like you are struggling even to get out of bed and get the basics done, that goes beyond burnout.

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

We can't do it alone. We need each other. EN: Making that happen in real life is, of course, easier said than done. And one of the things that is my little reminder to myself

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

in and out of hospitals and clinics, just like she had done in years past, trying to seek relief but still coming up short.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

It's not that doctors don't know these are important issues. In a recent survey done in the U.S. among physicians, over 1,000 physicians,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

and he wasn't doing anything different than he had ever done, 1,000 nights before, but everything would align.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

which you still hear in bullfights and in flamenco dances. In Spain, when a performer has done something impossible and magic, "Allah, olé, olé, Allah, magnificent, bravo,"

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

we can stop thinking about the right way to do things. About the way that things should be done, and instead start thinking about what we can do

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

and ensuring that each step was accessible to her mental and physical needs, for the first time in a year, she's done every step in that routine for two weeks straight.

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

But for the first time, I stopped thinking about the way that laundry should be done. And instead, started thinking

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

But could it also be the AI and the brain share something in common? So we’ve done this scratch pad prediction task, and it turns out, 75 percent of the time

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

and powerful artificial intelligence. But it's important that this pursuit be done out in the open so the science can be shared with the world,

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

so the science can be shared with the world, and it must be done with a very long time horizon. This makes academia the perfect place to pursue a science of intelligence.

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

I felt like I had to live small because if anybody found out what I had done they wouldn't love me

or the caption. Had he done that, it could have been better. Also, we could have asked it to make more.

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

So we're bringing the humanity back to these conversations. I've done that by building a platform called OmniBridge. So my team has established this bridge

How AI Can Bridge the Deaf and Hearing Worlds | Adam Munder | TED · TED

and sometimes, we go right to spotlighting them, because the work has already been done to prove that they're effective. Now, when we first were dreaming about creating Every Cure,

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

so they don’t get folate into their brain. I was so amazed to learn about the work being done by Richard Frye. He had done the first of three randomized controlled trials

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

I was so amazed to learn about the work being done by Richard Frye. He had done the first of three randomized controlled trials that showed a benefit for this medicine in this subgroup of patients.

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

and improved public health. We believe the same can be done with public safety, because racially equitable access to safety

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

because we're not the things that we've perpetrated or the things that have been done to us. Those things are only informing who we become,

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

Is it realistic to ignore this crisis? Look at what a few million climate refugees have done to promote authoritarianism and ultranationalism.

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

I didn't know any statistics. I’d never done non-profit management or grant writing. None of it.

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

Tthen you had language to sequence, which is how biology is done. Now you're doing essentially planning and strategy.

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

that when you’re growing at the rate that we’re growing, you get so much done in a year, you forget how far you went.

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

You're asking to shove it back in and close it again. And the whole point of the allegory is that such cannot be done. And so that's the way that I look at it.

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

back into the original image. And when this process is done, not once, not twice, but billions of times on a diverse set of images,

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

Surprisingly, shadows have a lot in common with vanishing points. Here, what I've done is I've annotated a point on a shadow with the corresponding part on the bottom of the rail

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

to save them returning to an overflowing inbox when done right all these moves can contribute to staff feeling happier

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is that there are multiple companies doing it already. I know, because I've done it myself. I've worked in what we now call generative AI for over a decade,

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

that trained on licensed music. A number of other companies have done the same thing, and I founded Fairly Trained in order to highlight this fact,

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

that humans ever created, with the potential to destroy human civilization if not done right? Or they can bring us back together

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

we must take the one less traveled. Beyond getting the job done, a tool for thought helps us better understand the job.

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

a tool for thought helps us better understand the job. Beyond getting it done faster, it helps us get it done better.

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

Beyond getting it done faster, it helps us get it done better. Beyond getting us to the right answers,

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

then the feedback process is still working as intended. But we're not done yet. Clara has entirely new ways of interacting with this text

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

who drove the coffee beans to the coffee shop. But he couldn't have done his job without the road. So I would thank the people who paved the road.

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

Most goals are abandoned because we want to be the person who has done it, not the person who is currently doing it.

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

without even looking up from their phone. And while she's saying this, I'm realizing I've done that. I've been that a-hole.

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

that perfectly fits my thumb. And when something is done well, the process behind it is largely invisible.

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

which local residents then stocked with food and other supplies. All of this done on donated supplies and volunteer time. And that has now turned into over 40 boxes over three different counties,

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

He is a Nepalese restaurateur in London. And Sujan has done a world of good in his life. But during the pandemic,

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

using perception instead of categories is much easier said than done. Categories are something our brains use.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

and to have broadcast that choice in the biggest newspaper in America. But what I have done instead is turn my relationship into the kind of myth I don't quite believe in.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

There are two narratives about you out there. One is, you know, you are this incredible visionary who's done the impossible, and you shocked the world.

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

you came out with something that was much more powerful than anything being done. I mean, it is amazing what you've built.

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

make it safe, for the broad benefit of humanity. I think by all accounts, we have done a lot in that direction. Clearly our tactics have shifted over time.

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

it’s been a long time now, you know, we have mostly done the thing we’ve set out to do. We have a long way to go in front of us.

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

and changed how they act or done a bunch of stuff in the world, like how do you think?

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

So I'll take the feedback. What is like something I have done where you think I've been corrupted by power?

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

everyone guessing um and he gets things done as a consequence he's got much more Consolidated power today not only

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

the United States there is a desire to get a deal done that's not going to work everywhere I don't think it'll work on

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

actually one of the biggest things we've ever done to the planet. And it's only

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

At a recent event, the crowd went crazy for her because she's done the seemingly impossible, made the idea of eating

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

This can be done with beef, salmon, duck, or any species that you can imagine.

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

in their lab simply watched couples interacting. Sounds simple, but nobody had ever done that before. John: Over time, 3,000 couples came to the lab.

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

then actually it'll take them ages to catch up with us, and we've already done it. Like, that is the history of Silicon Valley.