How native speakers pronounce “longer”

that is incurable and that I should expect to live no longer than 3 to 6 months my doctor advised me to go home

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

I spent far too long believing that joy was for someone more deserving than me. I spent even longer believing contentment was ambition's worst enemy, when in fact we matter because we exist.

Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED · TED

we often have little choice but to toil Harder Faster longer at the same time new technologies permit us to do

Running

do you I want a shorter life that's pain-free, or a longer life that might have a great deal of pain towards the end? These are things to talk about and think about now,

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

tasks you make more mistakes and take much longer sometimes twice as long than if you had performed each task one at a time

Slow Thinking

creative project make each time block longer than you think it should be maybe even twice as long

Slow Thinking

Maybe this time we would sit at the gate a little bit longer and I would ask him what he was reading.

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

is this liberation? Do we no longer have to depend on other people to meet our

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

I watched Palestinians and Israelis recognize each other's losses. They no longer dehumanized the other. They no longer relativized pain.

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

They no longer dehumanized the other. They no longer relativized pain. That's what STIR made possible.

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

But the life and death feeling I was feeling the first time was no longer there, just because I stayed engaged --

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

because survival can be so effective, you don't realize when it's no longer serving you. I grew up in Robbins, Illinois.

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

Each opportunity gave way to a world we never knew was possible. We no longer shared rooms, we had a car that worked,

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

is that survival can be so effective, you don't realize when it's no longer needed in your life. You might think you need to earn more,

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

and for 15 percent of us, it is a chronic problem, so it lasts longer than three months. The symptoms of insomnia are variable.

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

as we measured their sleep with that fancy wristwatch, that they slept, on average, 33 minutes a night longer, and they were awake for ten minutes less each night.

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

AI is making that edge nearly worthless. Not because humans no longer matter, but because that particular advantage,

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

that as they click through each option, I want it to last a little bit longer. So when they ask me, “One or two?”

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

called delayed sleep phase disorder, or DSPD. People with DSPD have a circadian rhythm significantly longer than 24 hours, putting their sleeping habits out of sync with traditional sleeping hours.

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

Algorithmic predictions are building this Kafkaesque world in which we can no longer contest decisions because they're not based on clearly defined criteria.

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

AI could do all of it. The bottleneck is no longer typing. It's thinking.

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

The Taliban took control of my town and decreed that girls could no longer go to school. I knew what life would be like for me without an education.

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

they meant it. Even if it took longer than I wished. But then in a single day,

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

By 10:10, I was being told I was no longer a "culture fit," which meant I wasn't getting that job.

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

How can we make this work?" That woman no longer works late into the evenings. Now, you might be thinking, "This isn't fair.

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

But it's also not when the other person is that far apart that you no longer see them. It's when I'm looking at my partner from a comfortable distance,

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

where the behaviors that deal with our stressors are no longer the behaviors that deal with the stress in our bodies. We are almost never chased by lions.

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

So my goal as a health psychologist has changed. I no longer want to get rid of your stress. I want to make you better at stress.

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

until her words become reality, until Black women are no longer dying, until we can all breathe the air together.

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

In the developed world, everywhere, women live an average of six to eight years longer than men do. That's, like, a huge gap.

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

Now, to return to the beginning, why do women live longer than men? And one major reason is that women are more likely

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

show lower levels of stress via their cortisol levels, they live longer and they have more surviving offspring. At least three stable relationships.

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

sends feel-good hormones surging through the bloodstream and brain and helps us live longer. I call this building your village,

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

Her sons, one of whom had asthma, were no longer as sick as they used to be. She had gotten better, and not coincidentally,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

but everything would align. And all of a sudden, he would no longer appear to be merely human. He would be lit from within, and lit from below

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

for the dancer himself, when he wakes up and discovers that it's Tuesday at 11 a.m., and he's no longer a glimpse of God. He's just an aging mortal with really bad knees,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

muscles that you're building are helping you live a better life, a longer life, a healthier life, one that helps your

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

I've worked in mental health for about a decade. I've been in therapy even longer, and the only time I ever had a provider talk to me

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

to overstate how powerful that idea was the midlife crisis was no longer just a theory it was a fact

Linear

while consumers are supposed to silently react. This is no longer the case with conversational interfaces. We are now engaging consumers in real-time on their terms.

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

That's injecting Botox into the base of your neck, your trapezius muscles, to give the appearance of a longer neck. Calves are being injected with Botox for the same reason.

How Digital Culture Is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu | TED · TED

While many cancers have no cure, a cancer diagnosis is no longer a death sentence due to the expanding toolkit of treatments.

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

Newark now has nine consecutive years of decline, and we're no longer on the top ten most violent city lists. (Applause)

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

Now, addressing violence is extremely complex, but just as we no longer rely on hospitals and emergency rooms alone to improve public health,

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

normalcy appears a glimmer of light the past no longer casts such a long shadow the future begins to come into view

Launch

You don't want to dictate what people think they deserve. If we're thinking about people living longer, healthier lives, and you want to give them the best opportunity to be healthy,

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

for Laborers it also limited their lunch break to one hour and no longer in 1391 the city started imposing curfews

Timekeeping

And the world wakes up to a new reality, one where the world's dominant power is no longer a democracy. This is the war US military analysts fear most.

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

glorify the workaholic Hustle working longer can also mean earning more that bestows status which humans crave

Work

which means many of their citizens no longer have to answer work calls or messages outside office hours

Work

because progress is cumulative, and the longer it accumulates, the weirder it gets.

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

Welcome to the age of outsourced reason. Where the knowledge worker no longer engages with the materials of their craft. We've become intellectual tourists.

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

and hope that our words will sufficiently honor the person who's no longer here with us. Or we can step up and express our love and appreciation

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

Others in the control group were invited to develop their skills. Who was more daring, taking the stage for longer? Well, as you can see,

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

meaningful progress against disease with AI-assisted tools. You know, physics maybe takes a little bit longer, but I hope for it.

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

that Trump thinks is broken it may take her longer than she wants I think she will get there uh the Europeans and the

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

we can use less land, less water, less energy. Vertical farming is no longer some fluffy futuristic concept, but it's

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

then it's too late after the fact. The longer that this goes on, the longer the breaking, the wrecking, the vandalism,

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

I was really sad because I had that line in there of like, "This is no longer surveillance capitalism. We're on our pathway to surveillance fascism."

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

you have to be emphatically interested in where they are on both a day-by-day basis and in the longer term. Equally importantly,

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

feel like we could talk uh for so much longer about this. There,

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

my mother passed away from a heartbreak because she could not longer connect with her son.

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

make deals with gravity to loiter a little longer I wonder if rain is scared

Naima Penniman: "Being Human" | TED Countdown · TED

we developed an AI that could generate extremely long sequences of DNA, 500 times longer than previous AI models, at high levels of detail.

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

For centuries, we've studied life by observing and dissecting it. But now, we're no longer just reading life's code. We now have the power to generate it.

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

they're celebrating anniversaries with AI. And so the question is no longer, will we fall in love with AI. It's what happens now that we already have.

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

When I meet you, in that moment, I'm no longer a part of your future. I start quickly becoming part of your past.

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

Please, bear with me, I'm still mending, but I'm no longer bending to the will of my injuries, nor my injurers.

"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

But as the world changes, horizon one shows signs of strain and is no longer fit for purpose, and falls away in its dominance.

A Fresh Approach to Resolving Conflicts | Darya Shaikh | TED · TED

with a new habit. Can you stay curious a little bit longer? It's as simple and as difficult as that.

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

My relationships were fraying or failing. And I realized that inaction was no longer an option for me. Those are the three pages. That's it. That's fear-setting.

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

the advice-giving habit, with a brand new habit, staying curious a little bit longer. Because when you do that, you begin to empower people.

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

And all that can accidentally put us center stage. No longer the coach or the minister, but rather one of the afflicted.

To Love Is to Be Brave | Kelly Corrigan | TED · TED

The fact of the matter is there is a lot of confusion around what really helps us live longer better. Should you be running marathons or doing yoga?

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

and often, I can tell you, after sex. They live about seven good years longer than the average American. Five times as many centenarians as we have in America.

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

who are expected to live about 11 years longer than their American counterparts. Now, this is a study that followed

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

that suggests that we can just blow past that boundary and live for decades longer, maybe even indefinitely. I'm not saying this is going to happen, but it is on the table.

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

and that worn down telomere sends a signal to the cells. "The DNA is no longer being protected." It sends a signal. Time to die.

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

Their telomeres weren't shortening as time marched on. Sometimes they even got longer. Something else was at work,

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

It was a previously undreamed-of enzyme that could replenish, make longer, telomeres, and we named it telomerase.

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

and remarkably, that shortening is aging us. Generally speaking, the longer your telomeres, the better off you are.

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

Our telomeres are losing the war of attrition faster. And those of us who feel youthful longer, it turns out our telomeres are staying longer

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

And those of us who feel youthful longer, it turns out our telomeres are staying longer for longer periods of time,

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

it turns out our telomeres are staying longer for longer periods of time, extending our feelings of youthfulness

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

It was right there on the page. The longer, the more years that is, the mother had been in this caregiving situation,

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

And all these gave rise to intelligence. Today, we're no longer satisfied with just nature's gift of visual intelligence. Curiosity urges us to create machines to see just as intelligently as we can,

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

can also allow us to explore in brand-new ways. Our tools no longer limit what we can understand. It's more that our understanding is limited by curiosity.

A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean | Eric Stackpole | TED · TED

And this is a very hard problem, because the cable is much longer than the reach of the robot. So it has to go through and manipulate, manage the slack as it's working.

Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet? | Ken Goldberg | TED · TED

It's amazing because the robot is doing exactly the same thing and it's a little bit longer, but that's real time, it's not sped up.

Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet? | Ken Goldberg | TED · TED

and then create new elements, even. And at that point, we were no longer just exploring inside the atom. We'd actually learned how to control these particles.

The case for curiosity-driven research | Suzie Sheehy

helps you style outfits together and facilitates care and repair, so that your items last longer. And it could be a way that you could help reduce the impact

What’s the Point of Digital Fashion? | Karinna Grant | TED · TED

turns out to make us age more slowly and keep us able longer. So the diseases of aging that happen to all of us, happen later,

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

And so what we find is that -- we can't guarantee that any one person is going to stay happier or live longer if they have better relationships,

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

saber-toothed cats, all of these cool animals that unfortunately are no longer with us. And when those animals went extinct,

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

And have patience, because it's going to take them longer to move on than you think it should. And if you're hurting,

How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch | TED · TED

days. Well, he's no longer a Wall Street lawyer.

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

which was far, far more than his peers, who only averaged 150 compositions despite living way longer. That was Mozart's method.

Is Perfectionism Just Procrastination in Disguise? | Jon Youshaei | TED · TED

I started asking my dates questions out of genuine curiosity. No longer looking for the "right" answers to my question, I decided to find out who they were, what excited them in life,

How to Unlock Your Flirting Superpowers | Francesca Hogi | TED · TED

Or, "Your eyes are so lovely." Maybe it's the start of a longer conversation, maybe you gave them a boost of confidence.

How to Unlock Your Flirting Superpowers | Francesca Hogi | TED · TED