How native speakers pronounce “hits”

I saw a headline, it was a very clickbaity headline: “Waymo hits an eight-year-old outside of a school.” And I was like, oh my God.

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because the essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic. (Laughter)

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But there's one candidate, and when that question hits them, what they do is they tell a story about a 1989 Honda Accord.

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the cost per viewer is much higher than for content 1.0 and 2.0. So even the economics of making hits might look quite different than for content 1.0 and 2.0.

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to find and track humans in conditions with low visibility. Or helping humans under the rubble after disaster hits. And as the cherry on top,

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But you have the option of pulling a lever to divert the vehicle so it hits only one person. Would you pull that lever?

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