How native speakers pronounce “fact”

I've been blown away by the whole thing. In fact, I'm leaving. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

I don't think that it's naive at all to look for joy in the everyday. In fact, if I'm ever to be truly content, it seems to me to be the only way. There is nothing too small to be happy about.

Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED · TED

I spent even longer believing contentment was ambition's worst enemy, when in fact we matter because we exist. We deserve joy by virtue of this.

Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED · TED

I lived in Stratford-on-Avon until about five years ago. In fact, we moved from Stratford to Los Angeles. So you can imagine what a seamless transition this was.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

The brain isn't divided into compartments. In fact, creativity -- which I define as the process of having original ideas that have value --

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

I found I didn't have my keys. In fact, I could see them through the window, lying on the dining room table where I had left them.

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

I've pulled this number out of the air for shock value, but in fact it's rather typical, this number needed to treat. For the most widely performed surgery on men over the age of 50,

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

I told this story to everyone. In fact, I told it for years. Two hours

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

State of Wonder was going to be my fact-finding mission. I collected

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

romantic partners. In fact, just yesterday at lunch, Esther Perel told me she recently did her first

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

Now, before we really get into this, I have to say that some of us have to reckon with the fact that we may be with the wrong person.

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

or to hold back and avoid them. It might, in fact, arguably be the choice we make, the most important choice we make,

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

and he even asked me, "Why?" In fact, he invited me to explain myself. And I could've said many things.

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

is way too common in that family. The very fact that these are rare draws our attention

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

I think they have the most important job on the planet. In fact, please. (Cheers and applause)

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

I want you to know reinforcements are on the way. In fact, a bunch of the videos and lessons are already available right now, and we'll finish the rest over the next four years,

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

Across the country, many schools are starting around 7:30 a.m. or earlier, despite the fact that major medical organizations recommend that middle and high schools start no earlier than 8:30 a.m.

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

you can't unsee the contrast. I couldn't live with the fact that we had a shot and I didn't take it, so I didn't fail.

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

Most commonly, it's been used to treat insomnia. In fact, some surveys report that up to 47 percent of people who use cannabis medicinally

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

But fixating solely on seven to eight hours ignores the fact that there's a range of sleep that people need. The duration of a good night's sleep can be different for different people.

Do You Really Need 8 Hours of Sleep Every Night? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter | TED · TED

who has always been fascinated by gross stuff. So fascinated, in fact, that I started a weekly YouTube series called "Gross Science,"

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

So, I was what you might call a gross kid. In fact, my love of science itself began when my parents bought me a slime chemistry set

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

and it's really kind of gross and awesome and cool. Now, the fact that I was obsessed with gross stuff as a kid is not so revolutionary.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

which makes them excellent to use in neuroscience research. And, in fact, the scientist Eric Kandel used them in his research to understand how memories are stored.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

They're telling you, "Don't question me. Just accept what I'm saying as a fact." I'd like for this talk to be a conversation starter.

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

because you don't fulfill a particular requirement, that's a verifiable fact. If I'm wrong, you can challenge me.

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

on various Forbes lists. In fact, in 1982, the very first Forbes 400, we had one tycoon who helped us create an immutable law

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

And we've had far too many icebergs hitting our Titanics. In fact, I have a feeling that if Lehman Brothers was Lehman Brothers and Sisters,

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

There are still some issues that we need to figure out, but the fact that so many people want this now will help to figure this out much faster.

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

Because we continue to use strategies built for men. In fact, that's what most expert advice is. That's what I did,

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

who had moved across the country to be near him, to live with him, in fact. The mother said,

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

It was a very stressful job. In fact, I had a panic attack live on the air in 2004 while delivering some otherwise mundane headlines.

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

that I was most ashamed of and had really tried to hide were in fact on full display for everybody. And those included my two most prominent and problematic demons:

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

makes you more likely to reach your goals. Now, I will cop to the fact that even though I've now retired from my job as a news man

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

But I'm much more likely to access the upward spiral these days. In fact, three years after my 360, I got another one, because I never learn. And this one was way different.

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

friendship does not happen organically in adulthood, right? And in fact, one study found that people that think that it happens based on luck

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

There is no reason to learn how to show you're paying attention if you are in fact paying attention. (Laughter)

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

being insightful, being charismatic, being entertaining. But in fact, people report that this entertainment factor is the least important quality they look for in a friend.

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

I loved the camaraderie, the stability, the fact that I was able to look toward my family's future. We had just bought a house.

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

because we think love comes with selflessness and in fact desire comes with a certain amount of selfishness in the best sense of the word:

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

while you're folding the laundry like a deus ex machina, and in fact they understood that whatever is going to just happen in a long-term relationship, already has.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

and feeling really depleted from too much work. But in fact, there's so many other factors that can play a role, and an important one was community and connection.

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

even complete strangers. In fact, in one study that I love, people who just smiled, made eye contact

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

An approval mindset isn't all bad. In fact, we've picked up some pretty useful skills in an approval mindset. In an approval mindset, we learn to set the bar high for what we want.

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

(Laughter) In fact, I didn't even pass the president's physical fitness test in sixth grade.

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

that access to water is indeed a privilege. In fact, a little more than a quarter of the world's population does not have access to safely managed drinking water at home.

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

are directly tied to our lack of physical , Ten percent in fact, on both of those. Six percent for heart disease,

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

told me to go home and relax. And in fact, I had no idea what to do. But luckily, I have a sister who has a PhD in health behavior.

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

"How can you talk to your manager or supervisor about the fact that you're experiencing burnout and get real support?" A question from Facebook.

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

and I need to adjust my work situation to accommodate the fact that I live in a monkey suit," know that we consult all the time with gigantic corporations

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

were no more likely to die. In fact, they had the lowest risk of dying of anyone in the study,

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

where thriving depends on knowing who you are, discerning fact from fiction, knowing how to keep learning, creating,

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

that their self-worth is not determined by their job title. This is about reinforcing the fact that not all noble work neatly translates to a line on a resume.

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

It's going to be a moment in time like a cultural institution, and in fact, it's going to be the Woodstock of Black Girl Healing.

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

Here's an intriguing fact. In the developed world,

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

when I wasn't saying a word. In fact, often they seemed closer to me when I was sitting in silence than when they were talking to me in the same room.

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

was very, very troubling. In fact, three weeks before she came to visit us for the first time, she went to an emergency room in Los Angeles.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

knows does not always behave rationally. And, in fact, can sometimes feel downright paranormal. I had this encounter recently

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane? And for me, the best contemporary example that I have of how to do that

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And less people are familiar with the fact that in your 30s, sorry everyone, you

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

Now let's finally talk about sleep. And I've repeatedly alluded to the fact that daylight is beneficial and important for sleep.

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

the midlife crisis was no longer just a theory it was a fact but here's the problem it's not a fact

Linear

theory it was a fact but here's the problem it's not a fact it's a myth

Linear

but I wanted to address it. Are we in fact cooked? (Laughter)

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

but because the underlying idea is making fun of how incels talk. In fact, I think each of these words is a beautiful, colorful addition to the English language

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

at or above the rate of consumption. The impact of this fact cannot be overstated. Just imagine Michelangelo painting an image in the blink of an eye,

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

are very bad at detecting lies. In fact, many studies have already confirmed that when people are asked to judge

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

(Laughter) And the fact that it makes stuff up, hallucinates, for me, that's not a bug, that's a feature.

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

isn't to make everyone interchangeably skinny and conventionally pretty. In fact, it's the opposite. It's to celebrate diversity

How Digital Culture Is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu | TED · TED

and off-label prescribing is actually very common. In fact, one in four prescriptions written every single day in the US is off-label. So I began to study my own blood in the lab

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

LN: It's, like, too good to be true. DF: Well, it is, except for the fact that it's just not profitable to do this. So that's why it exists.

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

DF: That's exactly right. And in fact, companies will oftentimes consider 15, 20 or even 30 diseases for a given drug,

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

It's one of the most bankable social safety nets a society can offer. In fact, I'm so sure many of you may remember your favorite school meal from your younger days,

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

Schools are where children gather, where they spend most of their day. In fact, we have 600 million kids in Africa today. That's a lot of kids.

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

but it would turn out to be even harder to take what looks like the easy wrong. Is it realistic to ignore the fact that right now, Greenland is losing 30 million tons of ice every single hour?

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

We lost 3.5 trillion dollars just in the last decade. And you know, the fact that these scientists were absolutely correct decades ago,

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

will pose a significant risk of infection to millions of people. The fact that the fungi are being pushed into the range where they can threaten humans,

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

oil and gas soaring because of the war in the Middle East. In fact, they don't have an annual fuel cost at all. So we should be moving in this direction,

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

as compared to a dollar spent on fossil fuels. Why do they also ignore the fact that methane is as bad as coal when the leaks are factored in, and the leaks are ubiquitous?

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

you know, Bob is still working in manufacturing. In fact, he's working in these same plants where his uncle and his dad used to work.

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

They don't lend themselves to a one-to-one ratio of people to systems. To say nothing of the fact that if you're a remotely piloted system, all you have to do is break the remote part

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

and you don't have the time to figure out if four of your soldiers are, in fact, missing. What's your first move?

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

stories thankfully but the fact that I even considered buying it tells us a lot about family

Family

There are serious, smart, hard-working journalists and fact-checkers out there who work every day,

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

We like to talk about democratization, about letting more people be creative. But the fact that AI competes with its training data is inescapable. A large language model trained on short stories

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

to create a highly scalable competitor to what they're copying. So scalable, in fact, that there are AI image generators estimated to be making 2.5 million images a day

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

A number of other companies have done the same thing, and I founded Fairly Trained in order to highlight this fact, and these companies.

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

The band you heard is actually a real band. In fact, that's me playing the fiddle. There's just one extra step in the process where I ran my vocals,

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

which to me is a little more unnerving. In fact, when I first generated that song, it kind of messed with my head a little because I love old music,

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

The term AI music doesn't really clarify anything. And in fact, even our own lawmakers don't really seem to understand this. So there was a recent US congressional hearing on AI music

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

Honestly, I have some sympathy. In fact, every time one of these companies issues a new model, I get more sympathetic.

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

who simply do not follow through on their commitments. In fact, in our data, grit is usually unrelated or even inversely related to measures of talent.

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

that is made from parts from all over the world. In fact, the US exports steel to Colombia. So I went to Indiana, and I thanked the steel makers.

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

yeah, I am going to live a good life. In fact, maybe she's right, I will change millions of lives. Maybe I'll be president.

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

are you guys still together? In fact, as I was preparing this talk, I did a quick search of my email inbox

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

The 36 questions seem to have taken on a life of their own. In fact, the New York Times published a follow-up article for Valentine's Day,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

I don't think this is the answer he was looking for. In fact, I don't think this is the answer that any of us are looking for when it comes to love.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

I think a lot of your questions earlier would suggest at least some sympathy to the fact that we've operated that way. But now I think we have a better understanding, as a world,

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

or something like that. But that the very fact that everyone believes it is inevitable, that is a pathway to serious risk and instability.

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

beneficiary of the g0o world and it's the global issue it's the fact that you have lots of global challenges lots of

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