How native speakers pronounce “months”

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months but then stayed around as a drop in for another 18 months or so

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first 6 months but then stayed around as a drop in for another 18 months or so before I really

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refused to signed the final adoption papers she only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I

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parents savings were being spent on my college tuition after 6 months I couldn't see the value in it

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devastating I really didn't know what to do for a few months I felt that I had let the previous generation of

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expect to live no longer than 3 to 6 months my doctor advised me to go home and get my Affairs in order which is

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next 10 years to tell them in just a few months it means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as

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went parading by. So over the next weeks and months, I told Emma three things

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

and they moved in together after only knowing each other for three months. (Laughter)

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

and I couldn't do anything about it. And a few months later, the Second Intifada started

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

even in the midst of the war -- to push for a political solution. In the months that followed, we started to advocate together, from heads of state

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

and connecting with other people in the moments, the days, the weeks, the months and the years of our lives. And yet, on the other hand, just look around a little bit.

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

So 10 years ago, my wife Jen was three months into her pregnancy when we learned that our daughter, who we had already named Sophie,

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

had Down syndrome. And three months after that, we learned that our daughter had died

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

It was absolutely horrible. And we mourned that loss for many months, until one morning Jen and I were talking

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

He said, "Wow, I can use this. Why don't you come back in two months? I'll fit you in my curriculum." And two months later I was teaching a class.

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

Why don't you come back in two months? I'll fit you in my curriculum." And two months later I was teaching a class. This is me -- you probably can't see, this is a bad picture.

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

(Applause) I think it was a couple of months ago -- you would know it much better -- I saw a headline, it was a very clickbaity headline:

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

and the wrong words huge difference. Five months ago, I stood before that podium asking the Supreme Court to do something

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

(Laughter) So for months, I prepared for the argument of my life. Three weeks before that argument,

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

which starts the process all over again. When these cycles of stress and restlessness last several months, they’re diagnosed as chronic insomnia.

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

I was back. I built 44 projects in just a few months. And the latest one was a WhatsApp bot.

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

and you might have to get the support of as many people as possible. And you might have to advocate for months or even years to take one step forward.

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

So when we perceive that, "Oh, I haven't talked to this person in a few months, I'm going to assume that friendship is asleep, not that it's dead,

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

that matter as much as test scores do. After months of piloting and iterating, these pieces came together into a coherent model

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

I could also register exactly what I should be doing six months from now, which is precisely what is usually drowned out

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

isn't making the fixes he's required to make." Veronica came back in a few months later. She agreed to all of those treatment plans.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

This is how I've started to think, and this is certainly how I've been thinking in the last few months as I've been working on the book that will soon be published,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

that might seem like a silly question in ten years. Or ten months. (Laughter)

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

I like to consume videos about urban design, and a few months back, I got a video about how great it is to be a “parking lot-pilled pavement princess.”

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

disruptors in the course of Our Lives that's one every 12 to 18 months a disrupter is an event or experience

Lifequakes

Network analyzing options within months he moved to Africa with his family to take a job running a non-profit

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But then, we applied again. And just a few months ago, we received this really transformative funding.

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

to be able to repurpose dozens and even hundreds more treatments. Now we've only been running our full pipeline for a few months, but we're already helping patients.

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

Those of us at the center of the conflict. It took months of intense high-stake conversations, starting with a handful of brothers from the four housing projects.

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

Sixteen gigawatts of solar modules have left China for Pakistan in the first eight months of this year. What is going on here?

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

And as analysts, we got really excited about this. A gigawatt of rooftop solar was built in two months. A gigawatt is the size of a medium-sized coal-fired power plant.

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

A combination of policy and data. Mexico City started inspecting vehicles every six months, using cleaner fuels

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

we're in this for the long haul. This isn't just a project of six months. This is a project of generations.

A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TED · TED

The average Black-led nonprofit never makes it to a million in revenue. We did it in 18 months. As a company, we've never been in the red.

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

You’re the good guy, and I’m the bad guy, OK? You're six months ahead of me, and we're both on the same path for superintelligence.

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

And I'm sure you're going to get there, you're that close. And I'm six months behind. Pretty good, right?

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

Unlike traditional contractors, we build, test and deploy our products in months, not years. That approach has allowed us, in less than eight years,

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

to real-world combat-validated capability in less than 24 months. And we did it using our own money.

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

this technology eventually doesn't turn against us. So two months later, I'm a leading signatory of the "Pause" letter,

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

I'm a leading signatory of the "Pause" letter, where we and 30,000 other people asked the AI labs to wait six months before building the next version.

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

and it's getting better exponentially fast. It's doubling every seven months. What are AIs going to do with that planning ability in the future?

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

Well, bad news. Recent studies in the last few months show that these most advanced AIs

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

And the current ways that we're training them is not safe. And all of the scientific evidence in the last few months point to that. CA: Yoshua, thank you so much.

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

(Laughter) This quest took me months. It took me around the world.

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

and you have not been doing much lately. It has now been four or six months and your motivation is on the decline. How do you sustain your motivation?

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

he was diagnosed with metastatic bone cancer and he was told he had six months to live. He had his right leg amputated and he went in for chemo and radiation,

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

and I didn't say anything to anybody, just put it back and left. And then six months later, we were on the phone

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

But these to me basically are the picture of the good life to me. And so for the past 18 months, I've essentially answered these questions every day.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

I have the emotional stability of a theater kid. You know, for months, Mondays would hit me super hard. Anybody hate Mondays?

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

And so these are my scores on several Mondays over a course of a few months, I get lowest scores across dimensions.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

that my loving Ashley question had been flashing red at me for months. And the other dimensions were basically green.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

So I made some changes and sure enough, within a few months things started to shift. The scores were improving, but my wife noticed.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

They are true tellers. Even a few months ago, I never could have imagined publicly sharing

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

and that was the rumor that two of the participants had gotten married six months later, and they'd invited the entire lab to the ceremony.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

And I thought it made a good story, so I sent it to the Modern Love column a few months later. Now, this was published in January,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

is because I have been asked this question again and again and again for the past seven months. And this question is really what I want to talk about today.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

But this was a question I didn't feel capable of answering. My own relationship was only a few months old, and I felt like people were asking the wrong question in the first place.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

but unfortunately it was never published. So a few months ago, I was giving a talk at a small liberal arts college,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

Another that I think is big is starting pretty soon, like in the coming months. Software development has already been pretty transformed.

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

than it was two years ago. But I expect like another move that big in the coming months as agentic software engineering really starts to happen.

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

comparatively well managed in the last 12 months even though there's no trust in it is likely to get it's likely to

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

relations will be just fine but I think that in the first months of trump coming in uh it's going to be very very choppy Waters

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

that has traditionally been left of center. toward Trump over the last six months of the last campaign. If you talk to people there, most of them, I think,

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

than the world seeing something fail. Sometimes I wait months before I even tell him about a certain project

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

And actually, he was at the TED Talk that I gave just a few months ago and was able to be there in the audience,

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

And she called me and she was telling me about a girl who had survived violence and she was pregnant four months. It's just this horrible story

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

there was a 21 percent reduced likelihood of divorce compared to if they proposed in less than 12 months. But if you waited three and a half years

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

And the really difficult part is that space is not empty. It is crowded with weeks or months or more of the, "You're not listening to me,"

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

So I told them about me. I spent many months writing a book about the science of women's sexual well-being. I was thinking about sex all day, every day,

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

in actually having any sex. And then I spent months traveling all over, talking with anyone who would listen

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

and I was so exhausted and overwhelmed I would just cry and fall asleep. And the months of isolation fostered fear and loneliness and frustration.

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

I want you to figure out what that boundary is. Maybe it's no AI for three months, right, when you're dating. Instead of using the AI and uploading your WhatsApps

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

your own sense of trust, your own intuition, put AI down for the first three months, and you're going to make a decision about that partner.

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

which some companies are doing, recently I've talked to 50 companies in the last two months about how they were implementing,

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

So we may see scam artists try to trick millions of people sometime even in the next months. We don't know.

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

from violence from individuals or the state or government. Months later, when George Zimmerman was not held responsible

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

talked about the idea of AI scheming or lying. But unfortunately, in the last few months, we are now seeing clear evidence

Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED · TED

and actions and decisions like it, what might my life look like in, say, six months, 12 months, three years? Any further out, it starts to seem intangible.

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

But actually, the first nine months on this project felt a lot more like falling off of a very steep cliff.

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

asking very dumb questions. Six months into this job, I got the lowest performance rating of my entire life.

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

was run back to the safety and security of the stairs. But about nine months in, something interesting happened. I had to lead a meeting.

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

I got on a 46-foot boat and I sailed from Malta to Tunisia to Sicily. I traveled 11,000 miles over 13 months to seven different countries without a plan or a phone or a credit card.

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

He survived. Seven months later, I visited the orphanage and I held him in my arms.

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

I visited the orphanage and I held him in my arms. A few months after that, he was adopted by a family in Chicago. Stories like this kept me going.

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

So it all starts back in 1946, just a few months after the end of the war, when scientists wanted to know

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

At the same time, your heart becomes more efficient at pumping blood. In a few months, these changes can lower your blood pressure and reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke.

Do you really need to take 10,000 steps a day? - Shannon Odell

by them practicing a form of meditation for as little as 12 minutes a day for two months. Attitude matters.

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

have developed a generative video model called Walt months before Sora. And you're seeing some of these results.

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

DH: I think we'll be able to get down drug discovery from years to maybe months. CA: OK. Demis, I'd like to change direction a bit.

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

The journeys of humanity and technology are now deeply intertwined. In just 18 months, over a billion people have used large language models.

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

CA: A digital species, unlike any biological species, can replicate not in nine months, but in nine nanoseconds,

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

And then, we collide protons quadrillions of times, and we collect this data very slowly, over months and months. And then new particles might show up in our data as bumps --

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

For example, this bump, after months of data-taking in 2012, led to the discovery of the Higgs particle --

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham