How native speakers pronounce “kept”

don't lose faith I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did you've got to find what

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

speak, and still he kept showing up because God's love was the greatest thing he had ever known,

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

when we do everything we think we're supposed to do? The answer I kept coming back to was not ideology -- it was power, politics and incentives.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

then it erupts. I kept seeing this again and again and again. So I got fed up.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

how they would feel on the train that morning if they kept to themselves in solitude, or if they turned to the person who sat next to them that morning

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

They thought they would have a more pleasant experience that left them feeling happier if they kept to themselves in solitude, than if they turned to the stranger to connect with them on the train.

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

I didn't get anywhere the first couple of times. But because I didn't run -- I kept doing it -- and on the third try the professor was very impressed.

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

And he was fighting me. I kept saying, "It's OK to rest, you can rest. I’ve got you.”

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

I hadn't slept one bit. My mind kept running. Then my mom walks in saying it’s time to go,

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

We're not going to have the human values which kept us together during the most difficult times prevail, but we're going to have lies that can prevail.

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

As the story goes, King Louis XI kept an astrologer in court. One day, the astrologer predicted

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

But I was in it to win it. I really wanted to be a nicer person. I kept getting tripped up though, because the woman who was running the retreat, my teacher,

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

her name is Spring Washam, she kept insisting that if I wanted to be less of a jerk to other people, I needed to start by being less of a jerk to myself,

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

"Helen will finish it up and give it back to the client." It's my third week in, and the partner kept calling me Helen. My name is Henna, by the way.

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

I wanted to see what my potential was. So I kept rowing, lots of rowing, lots of studying, and I even made the US national team.

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

(Laughter) And I kept training. I did want to go to the Olympics, but I wasn't fast enough.

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

We're different. So we kept plugging away, and then 2020 hit.

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

But I must be a glutton for punishment because I kept posting videos about my messy house. (Laughter)

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

by a two-hour snooze that may be a thing of beauty but it's probably best kept for your slow vacation

Slow Work

AI provocations at every stage of the process kept her metacognitively engaged, always looking for critiques, alternatives and lateral moves.

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

Now thriving couples know that trust is built and rebuilt based on little promises kept over time. Not grand and expansive and expensive apologies.

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

Julie: In our lab, the couples who came back year after year kept bringing up exactly the same issue, even 20 years later.

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

OK, so my golden retriever was my best friend. He really kept me from feeling totally alone." John: Hmm.

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

but they weren't made for my disease. And I kept thinking, everyone's telling me there's no drugs for Castleman's,

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

back on. She kept doing it and I said, "Well, you know, well what did you tell

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

(Laughter) I'm not making this up. I've kept it. "Business hours are over at five o'clock."

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED

and I have to admit, a lot of them told me not to take it. But there was this little voice inside me that just kept saying, "I wonder.

Forget the Corporate Ladder — Winners Take Risks | Molly Graham | TED · TED

And that was stability. I kept people at a distance. I didn't want anyone to know what we were going through at home.

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

because of these underlying trends as well. If we had kept mortality rates where they were in 1920, we wouldn't have anywhere near the magnitude

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

who was abandoned on a street weighing just two and a half pounds. He was rescued by an orphanage and kept inside our incubator for weeks. He survived.

What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED

A few months after that, he was adopted by a family in Chicago. Stories like this kept me going. Along the way, we were recognized by President Obama

What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED

my big brother, Gerry, and she married my dad, but she kept her maiden name. And then she had my sister Stephanie and I back-to-back,

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

Personally, I don’t have time for that, because the only time I want to be kept up all night long tossing and turning is when I’m in the company of a fine-ass man.

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

They met each other at the first Earth Summit in 1992, and they kept seeing each other at climate events for years to come until they fell in love.

Your Inner Fire Is Your Greatest Strength | Xiye Bastida | TED · TED

I was searching for an "and," but I kept getting presented an "either-or." And I almost let those five words -- “Are you sure about that?” -- stop me.

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

then rupture is the introduction of something fresh. It's bridging together two spaces often kept separate for the sake of achieving new ends,

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

protected it like a diamond. They kept it close to them. Because if you get any product from Turkey or elsewhere

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

and that's how it wrote. Or, how the oozy white stuff kept things dispersed so it could write. And as they were leaving the room,

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

and also the fact that warm relationships seemed to keep people both physically stronger and kept their brains sharper as they grew older.

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

National parks are heavily managed. The wildlife is kept to a certain population size and structure. Fires are suppressed.

Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris

People believed in it and they kept doing it. However, as I said just a little moment

Why Venting Doesn’t Help You Deal with Anger | Jennifer Parlamis | TED · TED

like it's already becoming part of your identity? Well, bad news: you should have kept your mouth shut, because that good feeling

Keep your goals to yourself | Derek Sivers

but they were told that they could stop at any time. Now, those who kept their mouths shut worked the entire 45 minutes on average,

Keep your goals to yourself | Derek Sivers

All the while, the cluster of similar listeners in the algorithm grew larger, and Spotify kept pushing it more, because these platforms want to amplify cultural trends to keep you on the app.

Why Are People Starting to Sound Like ChatGPT? | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

But how do you end that story? Like, what literally kept happening is we'd be, you know, telling a story, cruising along, two viewpoints in conflict,

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

He didn't know how many dreams I had. JA: In effect, she kept telling me, "Don't bring your stupid way of seeing the world into my story,

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

who sailed to west Africa in 1561 and kept a fascinating account of his voyage. After referring to the black Africans as "beasts who have no houses,"

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

Now this was a discussion class and we were having a discussion. I just backed out of that, you know, and I just kind of kept the fists from flying. But what I learned was that sometimes I would make a sign

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

we need to listen to each other. Well, my journey kept going on. My dad said, "That’s one,"

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

And so I committed to providing the best information for our incident commanders. But I kept encountering situations that I couldn't make sense of. Where adding more information

How to Make Big Decisions in Challenging Circumstances | Jonathan Reimer | TED · TED