How native speakers pronounce “meant”

who were live streaming themselves playing video games on Twitch, and I had no idea what that meant. But I learned that I could broadcast myself live on this website,

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

We have a huge vested interest in it, partly because it's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

what the world will look like in five years' time. And yet, we're meant to be educating them for it. So the unpredictability, I think, is extraordinary.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

but most importantly, it’s exactly what science class is meant to be: super freaking fun.

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

indicated self-confidence, while sleeping semi-fetal meant you’re sensible and well adjusted. While Dunkell’s ideas lack any definitive proof,

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I learned that protecting the whole sometimes meant shrinking parts of ourselves. Growing up in a place where access is limited,

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

When I walked into the court that day, I never felt more like I was exactly where I was meant to be. I brought to the podium no mountain of legal notes,

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

at that time, just, you know, going out and playing as children meant that it was an act of quiet resistance. But at the same time, as a nation that today is thriving in many senses,

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

two or three children by the time I was just 20. It meant I would have no choice, no control of my future.

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

Trust that when leaders said they cared about making our lives better, they meant it. Even if it took longer than I wished.

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

I was being told I was no longer a "culture fit," which meant I wasn't getting that job. As an added bonus, per company protocol,

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

to remind themselves of how engaged they still are in their work. It shows them they're exactly where they're meant to be. Phase two of the Setback Cycle

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

that the audit report was going to be delayed by over two weeks. Correcting him meant his approval of me -- Henna, not Helen --

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

A lot of the lightweights lost their menstrual cycle. We just thought that meant we were training hard and we were working really hard, and we we're nice and lean.

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

but they show me that a better future is possible. What if masculinity meant having a healthy and balanced confidence, communicating clearly, being connected to your community?

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

And they were rooting for us because in this time of confusion and contention, this journey allowed us all to reflect on what it meant to be American. We saw America up close and personal as we walked.

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

There's nothing more we can do." But I was so sick, I didn't really know what my doctors meant, until my family came in the room and started hugging me goodbye,

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

my doctors gave me a combination of seven chemotherapies that weren't meant for my disease. Amazingly, they worked, I survived, I returned to medical school,

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

My parents were health care workers and church leaders, and that meant they were always willing to help, even when we didn't have much ourselves.

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

That's batteries. Batteries are doing exactly what they're meant to do. They're charging on solar in the daytime,

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

bedtime stories are meant to be read at a gentle pace

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But we couldn't have predicted any of that from the outset. We kind of had to live the change in order to understand what it meant. Now, actually, it's worse than that,

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

Unlike typical AI suggestions, provocations are not meant to be applicable all the time. They're instead meant to stimulate your thinking about your work.

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

provocations are not meant to be applicable all the time. They're instead meant to stimulate your thinking about your work. Because if you understand your work well enough,

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

I didn't have to worry about trying to find the words to tell him all that he'd meant to me and only hope that he could hear what I said.

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

No one would be left wondering if they messed up or if she knew how much she meant to them. So we had a living memorial service for her,

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

So we had a living memorial service for her, and we each took turns telling her how much she meant to us, and she said the same thing back.

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

(Laughs) So what was meant to break me did not break me, it built me up. I believed that man, I believed what he said.

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

I was assessed as an ENTJ, which meant that I was extroverted, intuitive, thinking, judging, or some might call it, “The Commander.”

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

Some of the kids were appointed to be overseers. Which meant that if anybody said something or did something that was out of line, they could be thrown off the ship.

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

"These handles are perfect, baby." What he, of course meant was his heated motorcycle handles, not his love handles.

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

what would happen in their relationship six years later. Which meant we never got invited to dinner anymore. (Laughter)

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

Those words were never said in the talk. I certainly never meant to say those words, but that's what I had to go into court to defend.

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

and that was where it turned the case on its head, because it meant I couldn't defend that judge's meaning. So I then had to defend on the public interest

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

It didn't mean that Mr. Right is somehow waiting behind door number two. It meant that if you want to understand what makes a marriage work,

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

One is that we got cable television in the 80s, which meant that we suddenly had a 24-hour news

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

is that I grew up towards the tail end of apartheid South Africa. And what that meant was that I was in the first cohort of kids, of Black kids,

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

that you're telling stories for the sake of telling stories?" Yes, I meant it. And I said that I don't want you to learn anything from these lessons,

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

we learn this funny thing about love. We kind of change our ideas about what it's meant to feel like, and we learn it's not reciprocal.

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

three times my age." I asked her what that meant, and she said, "Miss, it's kind of a long story."

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

And then it said, “Oh, well you should also consider fashion.” And then she said, “No, no. I meant to say I’m a man.” And then it replaced fashion with engineering.

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

made road maps for infant joy, shamed nothing but fear, called ourselves fat and meant, of course, impeccable.

Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016? | TED · TED

Still, I understand his doubts. I never meant to build my life around new forms of democracy. I started out just really believing in the power of science.

How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other | Divya Siddarth | TED · TED

the definition of sex was extremely narrow. It essentially meant penetrative sex between a guy and a girl. And masturbation wasn't a topic of conversation.

The Relationship Between Sex and Imagination | Gina Gutierrez | TED · TED

but you will figure it out." Personally, I thought love meant action. I had no idea it could be so still.

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

And then one day, boom, we retire. And typically that has meant retiring to the easy chair,

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

It asks, what now? For me, it meant expanding the stage beyond the opera house. As you can see, I'm here dancing with Prince,

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

beyond our achievements or even our purpose. I once thought healing meant fixing myself. Now I know it means loving myself.

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

and I was named Water Protector, which meant that I had to close the faucet every time my classmates washed their hands

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

and perhaps untimely death. Our findings meant that people's life events and the way we respond to these events

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

and I'm just not feeling as well. Now, what we're meant to do is to come back to equilibrium when a stressor goes away.

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

that because nature was a thing apart from man and because climate change meant that every centimeter of the Earth was altered by man,

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

but now only with pity." And I thought she meant pity because he was so unevolved as to have done this terrible thing.

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

Marriage soon led us to children, and that meant new meanings and new identities -- ours and theirs.

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

announced the first-ever computer-aided proof. Their discovery meant that for the first time in history, mathematicians had to accept a major theorem

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED