How native speakers pronounce “lot”

These screens are huge. That is a huge picture of me bald in front of a lot of people. OK, so next up was rescuing animals.

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

(Applause) That's a lot of treats. She's a very happy cow.

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

in a seat that wouldn't recline, on an eight-hour flight. Well, I had a lot of time to think during those eight hours and no sleep. (Laughter)

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

Now, this sounds like common sense, and it is, but there's a lot of science to back this up, based on the way our spatial memory works.

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

zinc plates? They're a lot heavier than a typewriter. In O'Hare, I got very, very lost.

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

opportunity to catch her. Daniel talked a lot about the children's section, which was not a part of

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

books of their own. We do a lot of this at Parnassus.

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

the stakes are very high. When a lot has been pushed to your 30s, there is enormous thirtysomething pressure

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

If we're being honest, a lot of us just surrender to others or to other things. We say, well, we can't do that because of my parents, my childhood,

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

But quantity pushes out quality, and they started spending a lot less time with each other in person.

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

problem for our ultra-social species, because a lot of our evolved bonding mechanisms involve our bodies.

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

better read than me, who just knew a lot more than me, who were healthier than me. And then I tried to copy them.

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

It's emotional. And, you know, like a lot of these start-ups, it was a success. And then there was turmoil, and I felt like I had to leave.

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

The inputs affect your outputs. If you're inputting a lot of misery, a lot of doom and gloom,

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

If you're inputting a lot of misery, a lot of doom and gloom, a lot of trivial stuff,

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

a lot of doom and gloom, a lot of trivial stuff, you might be a doomy and gloomy kind of person and kind of trivial.

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

My kids have learned a lot from Khan Academy, but I'm very concerned about what

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

They're pulling out a lot of the devices. They're going

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

My students at NYU say they learn a lot better when people aren't on devices, when they don't have

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

and tons of really great friends and colleagues who poured a lot of knowledge and a lot of love into my life.

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

who poured a lot of knowledge and a lot of love into my life. Richard Powers, in his book "Bewilderment," says,

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

take action, but they were quickly joined by fathers and by a lot of Gen Z activist organizations, and also by many

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

>> The people who made this technology, they choose a lot of them choose to send their kids to schools that don't have

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

(Laughter) I think about relationships a lot, and something that comes up a lot in my work

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

I think about relationships a lot, and something that comes up a lot in my work is this belief that relationships are hard.

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

Would you think to yourself "it sounds like they have some serious issues?" If we're honest, a lot of us would. And it's not because we're not open-minded,

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

for a relationship in trouble. And while they can be for a lot of people, that is not always the case. Relationship experts have found

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

And they had a circumstance that supported the option to live apart. One conflict that comes up a lot in my work is the difference in values between arriving on time

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

"Thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me this morning." I've forgotten a lot of details about how that conversation actually went,

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

smiling and saying hello to other people, and I get, in return, a lot more smiles and hellos when I'm walking around.

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

And I became famous. A lot of people started writing emails to me and saying, "What you're doing is awesome."

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

I wanted to see what I could learn. And then I learned a lot of things. I discovered so many secrets.

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

I'm like science Gallagher up here. So a lot of people would look at that -- Thank you, yeah.

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

Please don’t throw them back the whole time. A lot of people look at that and be like, "Oh, neat, the ping-pong balls exploded."

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

The caduceus, or the symbol of medicine, means a lot of different things to different people, but most of our public discourse on medicine

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

many of our institutions for the provision of health care start to look a heck of a lot like Jiffy Lube. (Laughter)

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

the way I did with these ping-pong balls, a lot of the times it’s something like this -- with curiosity-murdering phrases

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

and the exceptions teach us things that matter quite a lot to the general population. Like a tree standing outside a forest,

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

And you're probably right. Sarcoma may not matter a whole lot in your life. But where the blanks are in medicine

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

They've gotten airbags and seat belts and all of these things as a result of a lot of deaths. But what hasn't gotten safer is the human.

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

because we think it's important that this is also very accessible to a lot of people. So that's one.

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

as we have these partnerships of fleet operators, is they are driving a lot of job growth as we scale. We’re just too early to be able to really quantify it.

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

to learn the skills that are needed. And then I think while there's a lot of focus on sort of the jobs, there are also small businesses in these places where we’re launching

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

(Laughter) I have two young daughters, and like a lot of us, I've been trying to make sense of the future they're growing up into.

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

So what do we do? When a lot of people think about AI, they think about what it will do to us,

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

and it's a cool way to share what I do with him. We have a lot of fun. But this past year after it was over, I noticed something.

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

So Harvey taught me peripheral vision: the idea if you read a lot, you can see patterns and come up with stuff

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

have done really silly or dangerous things after having cannabis. However, a lot of our understanding of these risks associated with using cannabis

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

Obviously, the problem with this was that in order to test this idea, he needed a lot of pee from older women. And that is not an easy thing to find.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

I continue to learn as we speak. I learned a lot today by listening to the previous speakers, and I learned a lot throughout my life, growing up as a child of war,

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

I learned a lot today by listening to the previous speakers, and I learned a lot throughout my life, growing up as a child of war, as you mentioned at the introduction.

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

when you watch the world's geopolitical tensions playing out right now? VOS: I see a lot of devastation, obviously. We're all seeing how there are too many conflicts, too many wars,

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

And while I don't have any concrete data to back up this next idea, I think that for a lot of us, it happens around the time we hit puberty. And you know -- yeah, I know.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

from people around the globe who are asking me about their periods. There are a lot of young people -- and some not-so-young people -- out there, who are worried that what's happening to their bodies

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

is that I was talking to this one scientist who told me there's actually still a lot we don't know about periods. There's a lot of basic research that still hasn't been done.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

So it wouldn't be TED if we didn't ask a question about AI. We hear a lot these days about what AI might do to society, but for you, these questions aren't theoretical.

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

there's actually still a lot we don't know about periods. There's a lot of basic research that still hasn't been done. In part, that's just because there weren't a lot of scientists in the field

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

There's a lot of basic research that still hasn't been done. In part, that's just because there weren't a lot of scientists in the field who were women, to ask questions about it.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

by leaning into the final decision maker that a lot of billionaires have when they decide if they're going to be philanthropic or not,

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

which is their egos. It turns out that a lot of people care about where they are on various Forbes lists.

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

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

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

and there's little we can do to fix the problem. But there's a lot I have learned over the past few years, and I want to share with you

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

Now, don't get me wrong, I have plenty of problems. There's a lot of things wrong with me. But putting a ring on it is not going to solve my problems.

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

You might not know what it would really feel like to be in one of my studies. There's a lot of equipment involved, but we plug people up to all of these things

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

that take the form of what I’ll call “anxious niceness,” they involve a lot of compliments, telling people what they do well in a very general, non-specific way.

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

telling people what they do well in a very general, non-specific way. But a lot of my work actually looks at what's it like to be on the receiving end

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

No, do not do this. You will, by and large, get a lot of people telling you, "You know, I actually just want to keep it nice.

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

"You know, I actually just want to keep it nice. That just feels a lot more comfortable for me." What I learned in my work

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

but you smile and say thank you and then, you know, go on your way. It takes a lot to break that interpersonal cycle. And to do that,

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

to how we can actually frame that form of negative feedback. So I think a lot of us are actually pretty decent at the positive general feedback, right?

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

it could mean it in a very global way of, "You sure managed to do a lot in five years." Or it could mean something so specific,

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

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. And you turn to the person and you say,

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

Marisa Franco: Now, as an expert on friendship, I'm up against a lot because of the hierarchy that a lot of our cultures place on love, right?

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

I'm up against a lot because of the hierarchy that a lot of our cultures place on love, right? With familial love at the top, with romantic love at the top,

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

And how we walk across this tightrope handling this paradox of people says a lot about our ability to make and keep friends. Because if we find ourselves stuck in the place

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

and how to listen. Many of you have already heard a lot of advice on this, things like look the person in the eye,

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

And I could see in the chat that a lot of the members also really love some of the things you shared there. So thank you so much for that wonderful talk

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

It's condescending, and it's really boring, and we tend to do it a lot. Especially in work conversations or in conversations with our kids,

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

but not our relational, not our collective, right? And so I think a lot of us found this in the pandemic that, we may have been home with the spouse or partner that we really loved a lot,

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

And so I think a lot of us found this in the pandemic that, we may have been home with the spouse or partner that we really loved a lot, but we still ended up feeling lonely.

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

WPR: Your work is focused specifically on adult friendships, which, for a lot of the reasons you've already outlined, seem like are just really challenging for us to develop.

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

Because as I shared from that previous research study, if we think that way, for a lot of us, it won't happen. WPR: And I think also just in thinking

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

however your spouse feels is kind of how you feel. Their, sort of, energy affects you a lot more when they're the only person that you're looking to for support.

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

20 percent more than the woman that didn't show up for any, right? Nobody remembered her, but they liked her a lot because they had seen her face, like this is our brain, right?

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

Who does that? A lot of people, actually. Turns out you don't make a lot of money writing books,

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

A lot of people, actually. Turns out you don't make a lot of money writing books, so most of the authors you know and love

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

This happens because I’m a woman, and I'm bubbly, and I smile a lot, and I chat a lot, and I'm talkative. And some people equate those characteristics

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

Now, if you are dead inside, the other person can do a lot of things for Valentine's. It won't make a dent. There is nobody at the reception desk.

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

there are a few things that I've come to understand erotic couples do. One, they have a lot of sexual privacy. They understand that there is an erotic space

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

a woman I know who I'll call Maya, went through a lot of big changes in a short amount of time. She got married.

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

Turns out, a lot of us have. Studies show that at least one in four employees globally

Let Your Ambition Light You Up — Not Burn You Out | Tarveen Forrester | TED · TED

OK, if you're an introvert, right now you're probably thinking one hour sounds like a lot. I get it.

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

To say something now would feel a little risky and a lot awkward. I wish I could say that was an isolated incident in my career,

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

because they haven't yet learned they should feel that way. I think a lot of us would love to take more risks and feel less awkward. So what gives?

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

nervous, hot mess Without realizing it, we start hanging out on this side of the gap. we care a lot about what other people think of us on preserving our existing gains.

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

We chase external validation. We care a lot about how we look to our leaders, our colleagues, our direct reports, our TEDx audience.

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

for our physical, not to mention mental, health. There are a lot of things that need to change, but that won't happen overnight,

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

What that essentially comes down to is I work with a lot of well-recognized brands on something that is a pretty consistent challenge day-to-day.

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

how I was going to combine my medical career with women's sports. And I had learned a lot from my time at the Olympic Training Center.

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