How native speakers pronounce “excuse”

Now boundaries kind of have a bad reputation, right? Some people think of them as an excuse to work less. Others as a reason to say no to everybody and everything.

Let Your Ambition Light You Up — Not Burn You Out | Tarveen Forrester | TED · TED

He just looked up at the sky, and he said, "Excuse me, can you not see that I'm driving?" (Laughter)

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

that they would rather miss their stop on the bus than say "excuse me" to someone that they need to get around. Instead, there's this elaborate shuffling of bags

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

People are going to start craving it." Do not ever come to me with the excuse of AI is going to make art. I will sit you down and force you to draw something.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

We used to think that humans were worse than other creatures because of some biological excuse: "Oh, we don't have magnets in our beaks or in our scales."

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

And it needed to happen everywhere; otherwise, every individual government would have this built-in excuse mechanism that they couldn't possibly carry the burden of global action alone.

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