How native speakers pronounce “matter”

Whenever I have a truly bad day, frustrating as it may be, it's a matter of time until my next smile. Good things are coming to me.

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

I spent even longer believing contentment was ambition's worst enemy, when in fact we matter because we exist. We deserve joy by virtue of this.

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

every education system on earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. Every one. Doesn't matter where you go. You'd think it would be otherwise, but it isn't.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and you don't react quickly, you might become the lion's lunch, and then none of those things matter. Unfortunately,

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

and initiate an autonomous patrol of the area. So that's cool, but why does it actually matter? Well I'm going to share with you a couple of stories.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

They went in, they repaired it. Why does this matter? Well some of the most devastating fires that we’ve had in the US

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

you're losing sleep over twentysomethings, I want to see — Okay. Awesome, twentysomethings really matter. So, I specialize in twentysomethings because I believe

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

human beings are ultra-social creatures who need to matter to one another in order to flourish.

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

into the conversation-starter Hall of Fame, but it didn't seem to matter. She turned to me, a big smile,

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

And you know what? The next day, no matter what happens, I'm not going to run.

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

but for a generation that is growing up on TikTok and YouTube, you have to make it matter with something that gets them to lean forward in their seat.

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

(Laughter) He was great because he made it matter. Like encouraging us to use what we learned in statistics

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

And this is all fine and well, but it probably doesn't matter in my life." And you're probably right.

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

But where the blanks are in medicine does matter in your life. I didn't tell you one dirty little secret.

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

The major factor preventing teens from getting the sleep they need is a matter of public policy. Across the country, many schools are starting around 7:30 a.m. or earlier,

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

remember that Rome wasn’t built in a day, or for that matter, one night.

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

But each of you has something like that. A place in which words matter. The right words can win

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

We'd have new entities that have their own inner lives, new inventions that matter for their own sakes and not only for their effects on us.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

And this means that what they do is unlikely to be a matter of computation of algorithm alone. Look closely at a brain, at any brain,

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

The brain is not, or at least not just, a computer made of meat. And so consciousness is very unlikely to be a matter of computation alone. And if this is true, then conscious AI is off the table,

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

in some massive supercomputer? Now if the fine details of the brain do matter for consciousness, well, wouldn't this be enough

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

Unlike algorithms, living systems are deeply embedded in flows of energy and matter, and they continually regenerate their own conditions for existence

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

So consciousness is unlikely to be a matter of computation of algorithm alone. Brains are the kinds of things for which you can't separate

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

And third, many other things about our biological brains and bodies might matter for consciousness, including a deep connection between consciousness and life.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

because I knew that while I was leading my country, no matter how small my country is, we could have a powerful voice in the world.

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

So that's the lesson that I've learned, that no matter how small you are as a country, it is not just the political or military

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

and that, if possible, they should talk to a doctor. But the truth of the matter is that everyone should feel comfortable talking to a doctor about their own bodies.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

they killed Muslims. So they killed everyone, no matter their religion, because it wasn't about religious differences.

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

but respect for the values of each other, no matter which religion you belong to. It's humanity that should prevail,

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

And the most important quality that they look for is someone who makes them feel like they matter. So for me, if I want to connect with someone,

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

for several weeks in a row. But none of those accolades matter when I feel my intelligence or my credibility comes into question.

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

on the last time you had a positive connection with someone. Doesn't matter how long it was. Could have been a friend, colleague,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

Yes, it did lead to higher levels of engagement, but it didn't matter how many interactions you had or how long you spent in those interactions.

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

who used to make us do a lot of the same workouts as the men. It didn't matter whether we were lightweights or we were open weights, whether we were in a single or an eight.

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

We need more than that, we need true investment. We need investment in our girls to let them know that they matter, particularly in this political climate.

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

and unceasing demands. That is the formula, no matter what context it's in, for burnout. CSB: Your work is around the stress cycle and how we can complete it.

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

in response to any perceived threat. And it's largely the same no matter what the threat is. And evolutionarily,

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

measures on student belonging that matter as much as test scores do. After months of piloting and iterating,

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

between, say, a stressful job and a non-stressful job, does it matter which way they go? It's equally wise to go for the stressful job

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

To bypass suffering, normalize your feelings. No matter how hard things seem, emotions and urges are waves.

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

I call this building your village, and building it and sustaining it is a matter of life and death. Thank you.

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

So it's clear that these factors, these upstream issues, do matter. They matter to our health,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

these upstream issues, do matter. They matter to our health, and therefore our healthcare professionals should do something about it.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

It comes from our personal investment in knowing that our lives matter, the context of where we live and where we work,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

the context of where we live and where we work, eat, and sleep, matter, and that what we do for ourselves,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

straight in as hard as you can. Yeah. Muscles matter. They allow us in an

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

it is expected, because in Seoul, looks matter so much for your professional and personal advancement.

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

Trying to look better is framed as a route to economic security and a matter of personal responsibility. But Korea just shows us a more concentrated and extreme example

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

we go to Great Lengths to maximize it of course no matter how much we do or how quickly we do it the number of hours in

Timekeeping

and I'd like to find it. I'm sure that there is an enormous amount of physics in dark energy, dark matter. Think about the revolution in material science.

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

the moments that really matter in life the moments that stay with us

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that is the magnitude of the Fourier transform of the noise residual. For everybody else, that detail doesn't matter, but you definitely should have taken more math in college.

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

Signal-to-noise ratio is getting close to one. Stay off of Twitter, of X, and stay off of everything else for that matter. LN: So what do you think?

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

Cornerstone of long happy relationships no matter what order you do things in when you slow down and take time to be

Romance

or is music expression? And to a listener, does it always matter? If I hear a song I love on the radio,

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

Nursing homes or bachelorette weekends. I mean, for that matter, weekends and standardized time. How about suburbs and pizza delivery?

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

can remember for us, does it matter that we cannot? People once asked if maps can navigate for us,

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

With Gracenotes, we let our family, our friends, our kids, even our colleagues know not just that they matter but how they matter.

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

even our colleagues know not just that they matter but how they matter. And these notes also help us to overcome the illusion,

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

Could you write a grace sentence? The medium doesn't matter. What matters is the doing.

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

But given the times we're in, that may well not be the case. No matter what, I encourage you to just look around.

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

People everywhere are dying to be seen and heard, to know how they matter. They're dying to get your Gracenote.

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

So that is my death wish. That you see how your note, no matter what form it takes, is like an oasis in a desert of people

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

knowing that I belonged there no matter what anybody thought about me. (Cheers and applause)

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

They have no semantic meaning. It doesn't matter how you are or what the day is like. They have something else.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

So I think this happens. And again, this is where I think the track record does matter. If we were rushing things out

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

That you need to show up for one another, no matter how big or small the stakes are. You can't leave the other person hanging.

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

federal system uh with with Governors that matter and elections system that is Run state by state um and then in two

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

The bad news is that these things never really go away, no matter how long your relationship lasts. My husband and I, we've been together for nine years now,

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

but they're also an opportunity to evolve. No matter if it's with an intercultural friend or at work

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

Anaerobic decomposition of organic matter, this is without oxygen, generates methane.

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

But no matter how sustainably we grow that fruit, it's only a good use of resources and

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

CA: I've always described myself as a determined optimist, which means that no matter how dark things are, you look for a pathway forward that has some hope,

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

put out freely for anyone on the internet to read. No matter how many more people read your past words, you don’t get any more payment,

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

and because I respect it so much that I know there's something inside that says he is right no matter what. But I think one of the wisest things we can do

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

Now when psychologists talk about meaningfulness in life, what they're talking about is a sense that our lives matter, that the world makes sense,

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

that you are more than what you are right now, that you will continue to matter into the future, beyond this moment.

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

They see what it's like to go to the grocery store and just pick out any fruit you want, no matter what the season is. And suddenly they feel like they can't be happy

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

all you have from the outset is a commitment. A commitment to make it work no matter what, and to make it work as a team.

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

And the lady sitting next to her saw like, "Is there something in the matter? Can I help?"

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

he was still there for me. No matter how many difficult feelings there were, he turned toward them with kindness and compassion.

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

the political beliefs we have about what types of stories matter secondly who gets to have those stories told i'm

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

understand the power of telling stories that matter no matter what so that i might realize that if i choose

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

she's going to call me "Point B," because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me.

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

she doesn't have to wear the cape all by herself, because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small

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

than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away. You will put the wind in win some, lose some.

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

You will put the star in starting over, and over. And no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute, be sure your mind lands

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

leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying,

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

and the degraded stop the enlightened from taking us higher. But no matter what you hear from the mouths of these liars, we are one people

"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

to create a major initiative to put women on the Parkinson's disease map. And as a poet, I began working with this subject matter, finding it tragic, hilarious, sometimes even joyful.

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

Lit from within is the sole secure way to traverse dark matter. Some life forms -- certain mushrooms, snails, jellyfish, worms --

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

I was told that there had been two to three recent TED Talks about Black Lives Matter. That maybe I should cut down my TED Talk

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

when I was told that I should "maybe cut the Black Lives Matter portion from my talk," I found myself fearful for a moment.

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa