How native speakers pronounce “interesting”

on the ones that looked far more interesting it wasn't all romantic I didn't have a dorm room so I slept on

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

Don't you? I find this very interesting. If you're at a dinner party, and you say you work in education --

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Gillian and I had lunch one day. I said, "How did you get to be a dancer?" It was interesting. When she was at school, she was really hopeless.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and absolutely nothing happens. And then every day, smart, interesting twentysomethings like you or like your sons and daughters

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But, I think we learned something really interesting today. So,

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(Laughter) What's interesting is that her parents did go on to get divorced, and my parents stayed together for 23 years before my mom passed away.

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try to help us get to know each other a little bit. Turn this 30-minute dull ride into something a little more interesting. Turn a stranger into a momentary acquaintance.

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But according to my calculations, things could get real interesting here in about three, two, one.

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TM: Yeah, we’ve partnered, from the early days, with transit. We think it's a really interesting way to take some of the congestion out of the city,

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when they know there's something to address. So one of the really interesting things I learned while making the video on periods,

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I felt like saying, "You know what? if you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting." (Laughter)

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And she said, "All I got were a bunch of 'Great jobs,' ‘That was interesting’ and then some clap emojis from the people on Zoom.

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things like look the person in the eye, think of interesting topics to discuss in advance, look, nod and smile to show that you're paying attention,

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

Because then they might have to stop for a moment and think about it, and you're going to get a much more interesting response. Number four: Go with the flow.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

And, you know, I think just to sort of start, your line of work is just so interesting. Friendship is, it seems such a unique area to research.

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

so that we sort of begin to become who we fully are. WPR: It's just so interesting how much vulnerability and shame play into this. And in a way, it seems like on the one hand,

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

Well, I want to dive into some of the member questions we're receiving because they're also really interesting. So TED member Arnoldo, they ask,

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

You know what I realized, too, from the research on friendship, I used to think that making friends was about being interesting, being smart, being insightful, being charismatic, being entertaining.

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

which is a major component of desire. But then the second group is even more interesting. I am most drawn to my partner

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

or myself -- it's the same -- what is most interesting is that there is no neediness in desire. Nobody needs anybody.

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

If everybody was fantasizing on a bed of roses, we wouldn't be having such interesting talks about this. (Laughter)

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

People lost the casual interactions they had when they walked in the office. And what was interesting is that a deeper dive into the research showed that loneliness had been on the rise

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And as we continue into our professional lives, another interesting thing happens. Even though our experience and confidence go up,

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that it goes so much deeper than that. >> There's an interesting metaphor, I guess, in muscle in that the way that

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many new perspectives from more interesting and brilliant people. You

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all of these are starting to look pretty good. Even video is getting interesting. Let's have a look at what TED AI could look like in the future.

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

thanks to content 3.0. The reason is that we can now create interesting content at or above the rate of consumption.

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

at any point in human history. Improv is so interesting and fun because actors play it out on stage without a plan,

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

A villain with an agenda. A hero with an interesting back story. A style for a world to be rendered in.

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

that we obtained by combining all the three datasets together. The results were quite interesting because what we found was that in the first experiment,

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

but AI is closing the gap. The most interesting thing about this paper for me was it showed a pathway

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

They're not quite there. But it is interesting. All of these are new cartoons that never appeared anywhere

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

But in the current system, there's just no incentives to do it. LN: One of the other interesting things to me, I studied the history of medicine, and what's so interesting is,

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

LN: One of the other interesting things to me, I studied the history of medicine, and what's so interesting is, for a lot of history, medicines were cure-alls, right?

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

from state utility Eskom, which has a really interesting way of tracking this data. It estimates rooftop solar build by the power demand

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

to meet their power demand without increasing fossil fuel use. And this is what makes my job interesting. But what we need is to stop burning fossil fuels.

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

In my case, I bought a rocket company because it was like, interesting. BS: (Laughs) As one does.

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

that, to me, really gets to the emotion of the song. And I think what's most interesting is that I just made up that entire story. It was actually 100 percent AI.

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

If you really cared, you would go and thank them in person." And I thought, "Hmm. That's an interesting idea." (Laughter)

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

That makes sense. The second reason is where it gets more interesting. We have a bias when it comes to people we're close to.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

how much do you care? CA: So that's really interesting. We don't know.

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And this is, I think, the most interesting and consequential safety challenge we have yet faced. Because AI that you give access to your systems, your information,

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

we talk about the rule of dawn you said something really interesting in the report that I just want to get you to

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that we're Consolidated one of the interesting things I mean Biden did do that well in getting the ukrainians to

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free market they didn't support rule of law what's really interesting is that the United States has instead move

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I've left the last challenge for you, which I find the most interesting one, and it is also the most hidden one.

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because as a therapist, I go right to it, but I do think it's interesting how you said that bad things almost always do happen.

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

that bad things almost always do happen. That's an interesting understanding of the world and life. I think that to me, that means that your people-pleasing

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

as opposed to more depressed. SRYA: Oh, OK, interesting perspective. BR: Because, like, I'm always thinking in hindsight, you know.

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

we kind of put people on this pedestal, which is so interesting because as a human being myself, my opinions are so flawed and they change,

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

so that's why I'm referring to him a lot in adulthood. But it was just interesting to be in this very surreal position of like,

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

Things that, you know, our brains would have never gone to immediately. But what's so interesting also, is that a lot of these insights are based on research

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fact that he loved it I think was also um maybe just interesting. It wasn't

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

from a bus stop um and never seen again. And what was interesting about that case, aside from utter tragedy, is that

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

>> Well, it's I mean, it's I I think so interesting to think about the the role that communities are playing in all of

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

Yet, given its central importance in our lives, isn't it interesting that we're never explicitly taught how to love? We build friendships,

The difference between healthy and unhealthy love | Katie Hood | TED · TED

accessible accessible poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become

Amanda Gorman: Using your voice is a political choice | TED · TED

(Applause) Cloe Shasha Brooks: Your work is so interesting and thank you for that. I want to ask you a question about something that I think people

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

would never have thought of. CSB: It’s so interesting. Thank you so much for your work and for being here.

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

Charlotte was very good at writing lists, but she refused to write any poems. "Miss," she'd say, "I'm just not interesting. I don't have anything interesting to say."

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"Miss," she'd say, "I'm just not interesting. I don't have anything interesting to say." So I assigned her list after list,

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

and she said, "Miss, it's kind of a long story." And I said, "Charlotte, it sounds pretty interesting to me." And so she wrote her first poem,

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

I could help to provide a glimpse into what the future could look like, start some interesting conversations, find gaps in regulation and experiment with community standards for the world around me.

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

what they can do, what they can't do. This can take any number of very interesting forms. So we could have robot zones and no-go zones,

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

“No one’s going to have a job in the future.” These are obviously such interesting, fascinating and terrifying conversations.

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

GM: You could think about it that way. It's interesting that none of the details about how it actually works are published,

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GM: You just reminded me of the one line I forgot from my talk. It's so interesting that Sundar, the CEO of Google, just actually also came out for global governance

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

And that resulted in the most anxious and depressed generation of our lifetime. Now it was interesting watching kind of how this happened, because at first, I saw people kind of doubt these consequences.

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Yejin, please stay one sec. This is so interesting, this idea of common sense.

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was run back to the safety and security of the stairs. But about nine months in, something interesting happened. I had to lead a meeting.

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But I want to stress not just that we did it, but I think the more interesting question is how we did it. That's what's been obsessing me over the last years,

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it was also useful for some of the big questions itself. CA: Super interesting. So obviously AI can do so many things,

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

if you could build a system that could beat the world champion at Go, it would have had to have done something very interesting. And in this case, what we did with AlphaGo,

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

many tens of millions of people still find them very useful. And so that was an interesting update on maybe the convergence of products and the science that actually,

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

And there’s one other form of sensor out there now called a “tactile sensor.” And these are very interesting. They use cameras to actually image the surfaces

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just an hour after it went for sale on Roblox. This is interesting because quite often our first luxury purchase is sunglasses or a lipstick.

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that I told you about. Now a few years ago, we made an interesting discovery that is actually a consequence of this genomic reprogramming

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we have come to name them oncRNAs. Now, what is even more interesting is that which oncRNAs I see in a given sample is not random.

What If a Simple Blood Test Could Detect Cancer? | Hani Goodarzi | TED · TED

we presented our little bump to the world with a very clear message: this little bump is interesting but it's not definitive, so let's keep an eye on it as we take more data.

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Well, what kinds of relationships seem essential to well-being? And this is interesting. We asked people

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

that we don't even notice. And there's an interesting little paradox, too. So this nature,

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Chris Anderson: Please stay. I think this is so interesting. It seems to me, at the heart of what you're wrestling with each time

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

To wrap up, again, if you are someone that has an interesting idea that you feel like you want to build from within,

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So this looks like inviting connection by asking questions that inspire interesting conversations, like, if money was no object

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Carol Coletta says, "I would pay someone to do what I do." And the interesting thing is: if you do it for love, the money comes anyway.

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in disciplines ranging from health, leadership skills, ethics, and beyond. What's particularly interesting is that those with the least ability are often the most likely to overrate their skills to the greatest extent.

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(Laughter) And it's very interesting to see that the highest-ranking American city, Honolulu,

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but it will give us the evidence we need to take action. So I found it interesting that in other areas of life, a lack of explainability does visibly bother people.

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