How native speakers pronounce “imagine”

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In fact, we moved from Stratford to Los Angeles. So you can imagine what a seamless transition this was. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

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In fact, we moved from Stratford to Los Angeles. So you can imagine what a seamless transition this was. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

He said, He said, "Imagine loving God

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

my joy. I can't imagine what life would be without reading.

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

real world, not by TikTok's algorithm. >> >> I imagine there's a lot of parents in the audience.

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

but maybe do it later today or later this week. I want you to imagine yourself on your deathbed, thinking about your life.

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

our metric of success is based on what we've seen everyone else do. Imagine how you would honestly feel if you heard the following about another couple.

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

or to try to connect with a person sitting next to them -- rather than just imagine it, to actually do it -- we found exactly the opposite results.

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

I thought this was going in a whole other direction. TM: This is my point, is everyone kind of starts to imagine, what do I want to do instead of commuting?

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

you stop restoring what was lost and you start adding what was never there. Imagine learning a language in an afternoon, a new skill overnight.

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

Rebel against tyrannical predictions. Let's be brave enough to imagine and fight for a better world. Perhaps then all of us can make the future bright after all.

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

All of that in nine seconds. Can you imagine? I didn't build any of that. For me, this was the moment where I thought,

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

and other people could raise their imagination. Imagine putting an agent into a meeting. Not for notes, we figured that out.

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

And agents are about to do the same. Imagine a company, a small business that has ten agents that are all specialized,

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

I realized that they were at the frontier of friendship, helping us imagine how much more we could ask of our platonic relationships. Which is true, but another way of looking at it

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

and if we can recognize that there is more than one kind of significant other then we can imagine more ways for us to find love and care and companionship.

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

that has been shown to boost your capacity for warmth. It’s called “loving-kindness,” which, as you might imagine, sounded to me like Valentine's Day with a gun to my head.

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

It can affect their reputations outside of the interaction context. So imagine the case that you're one of these people who loves giving this general, nice feedback,

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

Yes, I said we're going to the bedroom. So imagine it's the case that you just had sex with someone for the first time. OK, we're all there, we've done a lot of mentalizing today.

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

Basically, when I get back in touch with my ability to imagine myself with my partner, when my imagination comes back in the picture,

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

have a blissful time, multiple orgasms, and touch nobody, just because we can imagine it. We can hint at it. We don't even have to do it.

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

which is a mortar to desire. The ability to imagine it, as if it's happening, to experience it as if it's happening,

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

and she was incoherent and nearly unconscious. Imagine having to inject your mom with a giant horse needle of glucagon to boost her blood sugar

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life | TED · TED

as individuals find ourselves. Imagine what we could do if we optimized systems, policies and practices

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life | TED · TED

It makes me cringe to have to correct someone about my name. It makes me cringe even more to imagine walking through life as someone who allows other people to call her the wrong name.

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

I want you all to imagine a place where female athletes could come and they could get interdisciplinary medical care

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

You can use your imagination and imagine yourself pummeling all of the stressors into the ground. And you recover from that,

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

district leaders to imagine school that truly centered the whole child. Nurturing mind, body and relationships

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

to building a small business of his own. Now imagine pairing community-based design with today's technology. AI can help us accelerate learning

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

but they can't quite let go of their action figures. You might imagine that it looks a little like this. This was me in sixth grade,

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

communicating clearly, being connected to your community? Just imagine how different our world would be. My students don't even show me that this future is possible,

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

And our training is unparalleled. I just want you to imagine. It's like a revival, tent-like festival,

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

This is a parable of three friends. Imagine that you're one of these three friends who come to a river.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

even I have brushed up against that thing, at times. And I would imagine that a lot of you have too. You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

about what it takes to make AI less data-hungry. Imagine if we trained our kids the same way we pretrain our large language models,

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

by allowing bidirectional communication between them. So imagine a scenario where you have a brain, you record from it, you build a digital twin.

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

to create more of content 1.0 and 2.0. Just imagine a streaming service where you describe your dream movie and it appears in minutes.

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

The impact of this fact cannot be overstated. Just imagine Michelangelo painting an image in the blink of an eye, faster than you can look at it.

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

This has also never been possible before. Imagine an actor reaching out to every single viewer and having a meaningful conversation with them,

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

is in the criminal investigation field. Imagine you are a police officer and you want to interview a suspect. And the suspect is providing some information to you.

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

But let's use a metaphor. Imagine large language models being as students who have gone through years of school,

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

And also I would like to bring you with me in this futuristic journey for a while. So please imagine with me living in a world where this lie detection technology is well-integrated in our life,

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

making everything from national security to social media a little bit safer. And imagine having this AI system that could actually spot fake opinions. From tomorrow, we could say

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

where we want to be. Likewise, imagine a world where AI doesn't just offer conclusions, but also provides clear and understandable explanations

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

to the one I was describing before, but it's not hard to imagine an emotional connection occurring between a branded AI and a human.

Love, Trust and Marketing in the Age of AI | Amaryllis Liampoti | TED · TED

We'll just have your daughter interpret for you." So could you imagine going to the doctor's appointment and being told by the doctor that your seven-year-old is going to relay

How AI Can Bridge the Deaf and Hearing Worlds | Adam Munder | TED · TED

above all creativity allows us to imagine a new life just as baking a loaf of bread or

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these same activities allow us to imagine making ourselves slightly better by creating something new and fresh

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the energy transitions have taken place very slowly, so we have no right as human beings to even imagine that we could go faster in the future

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

I'll give you an example. Let's imagine we are collectively all of the computers in the world, and we're all thinking based on knowledge that exists that was previously invented.

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

And then it was this horrific conflagration. You can imagine a series of steps along the lines of what I'm talking about

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

I want you to imagine something. In the early hours of a massive surprise invasion of Taiwan,

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

With all that information in mind, let's go back to Taiwan. But imagine a different scenario. The attack might begin the same way:

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

which give us human joy. Can you imagine a world without human joy? I really wouldn't want that.

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

that can act as a better companion to us than real humans. Imagine an AI that knows you so well, can understand and adapt to us in ways that no person is able to.

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

The existential threat of AI may not come in a form that we all imagine watching sci-fi movies.

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

so it can bring us back together. Imagine an AI friend that sees me going on my Twitter feed first thing in the morning

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

I think we could see new songs, new sounds, new styles that maybe we can't even imagine today. Much like it would have been hard for somebody like John Philip Sousa

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

So a final thought experiment. Imagine trying to explain your life right now to a Luddite. Better yet, just imagine trying to explain

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

Imagine trying to explain your life right now to a Luddite. Better yet, just imagine trying to explain the life of some ordinary British working-class stiff

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

I mean, indoor plumbing is extremely awesome. But imagine trying to explain mass post-secondary education or the BBC.

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

In this, we are all together. How we imagine our happiness, that differs from one another, but it's already a lot that we have all in common,

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

to care deeply about anyone or anything or any place. I imagine it goes something like this. "I hereby acknowledge that in exchange for the chance to live,

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

The word radical simply means “from the root.” And so we imagine a world where generosity is simply at the root of our decisions

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

they can affect someone, or many people, three or more degrees removed from them. Imagine that next time you do a small good thing for someone, that you might be inspiring people you will never meet

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

more equitable and more peaceful future. And that does not seem like too radical a thing to imagine. Thank you.

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

and we expect them to read our minds. So imagine you're at a party, and you can't believe that your friend or your spouse

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

This is known as civil inattention. So, imagine two people are walking towards each other on the street. They'll glance at each other from a distance.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

brought kids just under the age of two into the lab. Now, as you might imagine, we had to work with a resource that toddlers really care about,

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

Now Australia and the UK are starting up similar programs. Just imagine how different the refugee crisis could look if more countries made this possible.

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

What do you want to leave this world with? I’ve written here, “Artists dare to imagine a different world. Creatives never leave the world the way they found it."

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

CA: So this impressed me too. I asked it to imagine Charlie Brown as thinking of himself as an AI. It came up with this.

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

where computers don't just kind of understand you. And do, you know, for some definition of whatever you can imagine, It'll be a world of incredible material abundance.

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

are present. Imagine it as a warm and cozy fire that can only be alive

The 6 Essential Ingredients of Loving Relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh | TED · TED

So what does that mean for intercultural partners now? Imagine a Japanese-French couple, and they speak English together. Are they unable to communicate the true strength of their feelings

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

when joking in a second language with their partners. Can you imagine what that does to your self-esteem and to your couple dynamic?

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

done with beef, salmon, duck, or any species that you can imagine. It's a

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

And if we could do that, it's just about possible to imagine a world where AI, data can actually amplify the best thinkers.

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

(Laughter) And it turns out, as you might imagine, that has a way of focusing your mind. Right? So I was really, really focused on doing good research,

How to Live a Meaningful Life | Brian S. Lowery | TED · TED

But here’s the thing: you can imagine it, you understand it. You understand what it means to have even the most glorious achievements

How to Live a Meaningful Life | Brian S. Lowery | TED · TED

and they told you they can't save you. I can't imagine what that must have been like. That must have been so heartbreaking, so young.

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

them out of the oven themselves. Imagine that.

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

who taught me this great metaphor she uses with her clients. She says, imagine that your best friend invites you to a party. You say yes because it's your best friend and a party.

How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski

So there are two things that I'm going to ask of you today, because I imagine some of you are maybe pretty shy, OK? So what I will say is: “Sanibona.”

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

we’d named by closing our eyes and trying to imagine the future. This was as close as we came

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

It turns out you can't write a 350-page book that way. HW: No, I imagine. SS: I actually have to sit down and, like, plan out the chapters

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

And now, when I say village, don't imagine the idealistic village in England. This is the kind of village that I'm talking about.

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

and yet, at the same time, sensitive to the smallest mistakes. Imagine trying to write something the length of 30,000 books in a foreign language.

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

In this future, we can make truly personalized medicine. Imagine prompting an AI like Evo with your genome, finding sources of diseases,

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

where they will never not know AI. Can you imagine your first meaningful relationship is with an AI? And so there's three questions I want you to ask.

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

There are some chasms so deep and so wide, we find it hard to imagine how we'll ever make it to the other side. That space between who we are and who we want to be,

"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

advances in treatment are really impressive. But you can imagine that I was appalled to learn that women are largely left out of research trials,

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

Lesson three is that robots aren't always welcome. So of course, as you can imagine, I have friends who call me up, and they beg me,

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED

CA: But to get something like that, don't you have to say something like, imagine that you are a conspiracy theorist trying to present a meme on the web. What would you write about TED in that case?

The Urgent Risks of Runaway AI — and What to Do about Them | Gary Marcus | TED · TED

that AI is like a country full of geniuses in a data center. So imagine there's a map and a new country shows up on the world stage, and it has a million Nobel Prize-level geniuses in it.