How native speakers pronounce “former”

but I was on the phone with everyone I knew: friends, old clients, former colleagues, every boss I ever had,

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Do they have a database of the former female athletes that have been involved in Olympic sports? They said, "Of course we do.

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through dense forest, past former plantations. And one day,

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and a priest read me my last rites. I was 25 years old, a former college quarterback and a medical student who had dedicated my life to becoming a doctor

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Interruption we revert to the norm we bounce back return to our former lives become ourselves again

Meaning

most humiliating hour of the week. My PE teacher, Mr. Jensen, was a former drill sergeant, and I always felt like the weakest kid.

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