How native speakers pronounce “flight”

I couldn't go back to my friend Jeff's house for the night because I had an early flight to Europe the next morning, and I needed to get my passport and my suitcase.

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so I got stuck in the back of the plane, next to the bathrooms, in a seat that wouldn't recline, on an eight-hour flight. Well, I had a lot of time to think during those eight hours and no sleep.

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And right now, about five percent of the US population lives within a two-minute flight of a Skydio drone to respond to an emergency.

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said, "He shouldn't risk missing his flight so that I could make mine." That's when he told me he

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That's when he told me he didn't have a flight. I asked him if he worked in the airport

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times. So, I didn't know that my flight was 2 hours delayed until I reached the gate.

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And so about a year after that, Jen and I boarded a flight to China with our four other children,

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So stressed their brains hijack the stress response system, flooding the body with fight-flight-or-freeze chemicals. Cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormones course through the bloodstream,

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And evolutionarily, we know the threat response as being the fight, flight, freeze response intended to help us run away from a lion.

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but here's another one that may be related to it. It's called flooding, or fight, flight or freeze. So a partner in the middle of a conversation

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so I could cover things on the three days a week their dad worked as a flight attendant for Qantas. I smeared sunblock on their noses and Vegemite on their toast.

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to prepare them for this moment. Even if it's late and they have an early flight. Here's two things the brave don't do.

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and really thinking about it and unhappy. I can feel my body go into what we call fight or flight response where literally my heart rate goes up

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I can literally feel my body calm down. I can feel that fight or flight response subside. But what if I don't have anybody to go home to?

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don't have those stress regulators that we get from good relationships and that we stay in chronic fight or flight mode, that our bodies have this chronic stress,

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We need to find a path to help us get past that initial fight, flight or freeze response, to get us to the table

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Although I still get quite irritable when Africa is referred to as a country, the most recent example being my otherwise wonderful flight from Lagos two days ago,

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from Lagos two days ago, in which there was an announcement on the Virgin flight about the charity work in "India, Africa and other countries."

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And yet, you'd probably still get the operation, just like you'd still take that flight. For a long time,

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