How native speakers pronounce “friend”

Then one night after one of these live streams, I got a call from a zookeeper friend about this red-tailed hawk who had been hit by a car, and he needed help.

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

who was confiscated from the illegal pet trade in California, so he and his best friend Reed now live at Alveus to help teach people about the nightmare that is the fur trade,

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

it was around midnight in the dead of Montreal winter, I had been visiting my friend, Jeff, across town, and the thermometer on the front porch read minus 40 degrees --

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and it was cold. 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,

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

knew, but the most valuable came from my friend Daniel Golden at Boswell Books in Milwaukee. He told me

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

So this is where I went online and looked for help. Google was my friend. (Laughter)

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

When we ask people to think of a compliment they could give to their friend and then actually deliver that compliment to their friend,

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

they could give to their friend and then actually deliver that compliment to their friend, they leave their friend feeling more uplifted

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

and then actually deliver that compliment to their friend, they leave their friend feeling more uplifted than the complimenters imagined they would.

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

Oh, this is kind of not a big deal. Now I'm going to be the coolest person I know in my friend group. And then all of a sudden, it's like, oh,

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

a new skill overnight. Maybe even sharing a memory with a friend and having it feel just as real to them as it felt to you.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

There are far safer ways that it can be consumed. Also, if you consume cannabis that you just got from a "friend," you won't know exactly what's in it.

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

or pretending to be a health care professional or just speaking softly the way a close friend would to you. And right now ...

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

(Applause) Look at my friend Warren Buffett. He's already given more away, in today's dollars,

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

It felt too much like a tool, not like a friend. You know, too many bullet points, too many tables.

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

Jensen Huang calls it the operating system for personal AI. But by far, my favorite quote is from a friend who looked at this statistic and said,

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

be each other’s plus-ones to parties. My friend has this habit of grabbing my hand to hold, including when I brought her to my office, and then I'd have to be like,

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

John got him into recovery. And then John decided that to support his friend, he would also become sober.

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

he would also become sober. Joy took care of her friend Hannah during Hannah's six-year battle with ovarian cancer.

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

because she was too busy watching to make sure her friend's chest was still rising and falling. Some of the friends that I spoke to had this friendship occupy the space

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

"I found it in my platonic life partner." His best friend, who he had known since high school, who had moved across the country to be near him,

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

from Supreme Court justices, also from policy. So Joy, during the six years she took care of her friend, she was not entitled to family medical leave.

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

and sometimes it comes from the inside. A woman wrote to me about her friend who she considers her person. She spent so much time with her friend's kids

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

A woman wrote to me about her friend who she considers her person. She spent so much time with her friend's kids that she was given car seats for them.

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

but she hadn't known, been made to believe that it was possible to have a friend be enough. If we can recognize

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

So the mother I mentioned, she's completely changed her tune. She now admires the commitment between her son and her son's friend. I feel like I get to live in a future world

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

or two spirals that are available to us. The first is what my friend Evelyn Tribole calls the toilet vortex. The reason why this looks childish and ridiculous is that I drew it myself.

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

close your eyes and begin by envisioning a really easy person. Maybe a good friend, maybe a pet. And then you repeat in your mind four phrases:

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

if nobody's looking, put your hand on your heart and talk to yourself the way you would talk to a good friend. For ambitious people, this may be a little scary.

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

And this one was way different. People gushed about how much I had changed as a friend and a mentor and a colleague. They talked about specific meetings

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

doesn't like these activities. But then when I'm around a friend, I can garden and plant my pothos with them

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

I can garden and plant my pothos with them or around another friend that I can downward facing dog with. And I feel my entire identity, accordion outward,

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

even when the circumstance is ambiguous, like, my friend, maybe they're just, like, hungry or something, rather than that they hate me, right?

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

There's also relational loneliness, which is the desire for someone that feels as close to us as a friend might. And then there's collective loneliness,

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

And this is where I'm coming from with that. The research basically finds that if I make a friend, I'm not only less depressed, but my spouse is too.

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

But in fact, people report that this entertainment factor is the least important quality they look for in a friend. And the most important quality that they look for

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

where you talked about the concept of super friends. So what makes someone a super friend, and how can we all strive to be super friends?

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

Because what I'm basically telling you is to assume people like you, right? Like, if you don't talk to your friend awhile, assume that they're still interested in being friends with you.

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

But now we want our partner to still give us all these things, but in addition I want you to be my best friend and my trusted confidant and my passionate lover to boot,

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

Doesn't matter how long it was. Could have been a friend, colleague, someone you met for the first time,

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

hundreds of millions of people around the world go weeks at a time without talking to a single friend or family member. Globally, one in four people feel lonely.

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