How native speakers pronounce “needed”

I got a call from a zookeeper friend about this red-tailed hawk who had been hit by a car, and he needed help. So we brought Bean, that's what we called him,

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

fired from Apple it was awful tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it sometime life sometimes life's going

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

because I had an early flight to Europe the next morning, and I needed to get my passport and my suitcase. So, desperate and freezing cold,

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

and pharmaceutical companies like talking about even less. It's for the number needed to treat. Now, what is this, the NNT?

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

that 90 percent of the drugs work in only 30 to 50 percent of the people. So the number needed to treat for the most widely prescribed statin, what do you suppose it is?

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

I've pulled this number out of the air for shock value, but in fact it's rather typical, this number needed to treat. For the most widely performed surgery on men over the age of 50,

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

removal of the prostate for cancer, the number needed to treat is 49. That's right, 49 surgeries are done for every one person who's helped.

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

looking at my ticket when a young man walked up and asked me if I needed help. Time changes memory, but I remember him clearly.

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

>> Like a Hari Krishna, I didn't do this because of what I needed. I had books.

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

not to say, "I will." But what Emma needed wasn't some therapist who really, really cared. Emma needed a better life, and I knew this was her chance.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

But what Emma needed wasn't some therapist who really, really cared. Emma needed a better life, and I knew this was her chance. I had learned too much since I first worked with Alex

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

But when we got to surface streets, you needed to pay attention. And we told employees this is early days:

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

because again, there's an opportunity for people to learn the skills that are needed. And then I think while there's a lot of focus on sort of the jobs,

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

I remember being told not to mention my father when the assessor came by, because it would reduce the support we needed. I didn't understand the system, but I understood the stakes.

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

when I walked out of that courtroom. first connection I needed was with myself. I was terrified of blowing the case.

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

But he got me ready. The second thing I needed was connection to information at scale. I assembled the most relentless legal team in the country.

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

They stress-tested every argument until only the best ones survived. But I needed more. I needed someone who was absolutely relentless.

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

But I needed more. I needed someone who was absolutely relentless. I found Harvey.

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

Closer, but that's not it either. The third thing I needed was the hardest. And it’s something we’ve been talking about today:

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

connection. Here, I needed to connect with nine very skeptical legal minds and to do so in real time.

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

she kept insisting that if I wanted to be less of a jerk to other people, I needed to start by being less of a jerk to myself, which I thought was the kind of thing you hear

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

and find, yeah, I'm going to step back. But others do it and realize it's just the thing they needed to remind themselves of how engaged they still are in their work.

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

I felt I had to prove my value again. That I needed to show everyone that I was still worthy of existing in the workforce.

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

My boss sent me down and told me that I needed to work on connecting better with my clients and building relationships with them.

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

I was also curious about the way that people were interacting. I wanted to know if you needed to be in person, face-to-face, in order to have these deep, meaningful connections.

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

But of course, this led to a high blood sugar, and she needed even more insulin, which is a fat-storing hormone,

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

on the TV. But I really needed to shift my focus. I still loved sports, and I had to figure out

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

to make sure that they were able to track their miles so that they would know when they needed to fill up again. Right?

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

and he brought us tissue. And we needed tissue because we had just walked through a nor'easter; it was 29 degrees, it was sleeting on our faces.

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

Our sneakers and our socks were frozen and wet and frozen again. We needed that tissue more than he could have possibly understood. So on that day, in that moment,

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

involved having a barber on the premises to reward the men who came for needed healthcare with a free haircut,

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

but fully able to roll up their sleeves and participate in delivering needed health services to improve the health of their customers and their community.

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

and the tank tops and realized almost none of my clothes actually needed to be folded. And I haven't folded any of it since.

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

because mental health communities on TikTok needed a way to share their stories and spread resources. On the other hand,

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

This suggests that the brain follows a predictive energy allocation principle, where it can predict how much energy is needed, where and when, and it delivers just the right amount of energy at just the right location,

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

for real-life applications in lie detection, more replication is needed because a single study is never enough so that from tomorrow we can all have these AI systems on our smartphones,

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

the only TV we had, to help someone who needed the money. It sounds so altruistic now,

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

There was always someone staying with us. Someone who needed a meal. Someone who they just could not turn away.

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

with global supply chains, so it was obvious to us that we needed to work with local smallholder farmers. On every plate, there are ingredients that have been harvested

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

with many of these corals not surviving. We needed a breakthrough. Over the past five years,

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

who is already pushing to phase out fossil fuels. What was I thinking, and why was I needed in Europe? Well let me explain.

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

who have chosen us as one of 10 innovation communities across the country, and it was really the organization that I needed when I was getting started that I didn't have.

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

that I couldn't even let myself experience them. I needed to find a new way to be. I wanted to find a new way to be.

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

to balance the trade-offs and to adjust my focus when needed. You know, I'll probably never forget,

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

so that he and his army of volunteers can support their community in whatever way is needed all day long. And finally, this is Chloe.

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

The second thing I learned was that in order to be an effective CEO, I needed to follow the lead of young people. You think about the past few years,

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

that I was on a performance improvement plan. But you needed to know my story. You needed to know my truth

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

But you needed to know my story. You needed to know my truth to go on this journey with me.

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

We were very lucky to find them a house, but it needed quite a bit of work. So my friends came out on evenings and weekends

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

I need you to start taking it seriously. You are so needed. Thank you.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

who are like, "Oh my god, first you told me what I needed to eat for my brain health, for my body.

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

for my body. Then you told me I needed to go to the farmers market and buy

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

having to throw this food away when I needed it at home for my family." Somebody's watching this and they're

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

They were suing each other, they were sometimes murdering each other. But it was they needed a relationship with Putin, with power. And in some cases, it was about enriching themselves,

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

When I was worried about tenure, I knew exactly what I needed to do when I got up in the morning. When you have a goal, when you're trying to achieve something,

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

and I was asking my dad for his feedback on everything, and I was just, I needed his approval. Like, what do you think about this?

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

you've got to start to wonder why this clearly bizarre treatment was needed in the first place. And I'm going to propose that preventing long-term relationship breakdown

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

What does that even mean? What we needed was a test, a way to verify that what it wrote would actually function.

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

A whole new chromosome, equipped with all the machinery needed to fight hundreds of diseases on demand. With DNA generation, what is the limit of what's possible?

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

had come together, had a baby, a baby I needed to get to know. So I decided to give it a try.

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

and then we're going to help you, essentially, buy homes, because that's what's needed for people to have secure lives. And it created the American middle class.

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

It was just practicality. We needed to know when trains would be arriving and departing at any station

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED

I have a domestic robot, so it's not really wanted or needed in the faculty rooms at the university where I work.

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED

Our data is fully open so that anybody can inspect the content and make corrections as needed because transparency is the key for such an important research topic.

Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid | Yejin Choi | TED · TED

while a lot of attention was being placed on the technical integration, that the culture needed real work. There were tensions and power struggles, passive aggression,

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

Just thinking my way through problems doesn't work. I needed to capture my thoughts on paper. So I created a written exercise

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

to make a meaningful change. You also needed persuasion. You had to convince people to drink pasteurized milk,

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

one that belongs to anyone, anywhere, whenever it is needed. (Music)

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

which seems kind of obvious, but somebody had to figure that out. And so what we needed at that point was not just kind of new miracle drugs. We needed new institutions.

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

And so what we needed at that point was not just kind of new miracle drugs. We needed new institutions. We needed new medi-innovations,

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

We needed new institutions. We needed new medi-innovations, like three phase trials

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

So I finally turned towards her and I finally said the things that she had always needed to hear. I'm so sorry.

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

but I wanted to find out what telomeres consisted of, and for that, I needed a lot of them. And it so happens that cute little Tetrahymena

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

is how accurate the prediction is, which is what is needed for biologists to use it, and for drug design and for disease understanding,

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

what that should look like as we get closer to AGI and the cooperation needed and the collaboration needed, to prevent that kind of runaway race dynamic happening.

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

because we are drastically reducing the amount of time and the resources needed to prototype and test new products, and this is allowing for a much faster innovation cycle.

How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World | Daniela Rus | TED · TED

It very much does. When I needed a knee surgery, I didn't tell the surgeon, "Poke around in there and focus on what you don't know."

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

And this way, patients receive more treatment only when it's needed. I truly believe that the next decade is the decade of cancer screening.

What If a Simple Blood Test Could Detect Cancer? | Hani Goodarzi | TED · TED

was something that, personally and professionally, I felt like I needed to understand better. So what I did is I took all of the interviews

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

it was an irresistible story. It made me feel like I needed to be part of it or I would be missing out on a big opportunity.

The Secret to Successfully Pitching an Idea | The Way We Work, a TED series

The problem was, as we started to grow and become a legitimate business, I needed the support from a lot more teams and I didn't have it.

Ask Dumb Questions, Embrace Mistakes — and Other Lessons on Innovation | Dave Raggio | TED · TED

had no idea what I was working on, and telling them that they needed to carve out additional time to help support it.

Ask Dumb Questions, Embrace Mistakes — and Other Lessons on Innovation | Dave Raggio | TED · TED

Silence. It can be a needed moment of peace and contemplation. But what happens when silence becomes a barrier?

How to Speak Up — Even When You Don’t Want To | Sarah Crawford-Bohl | TED · TED

What was the good and right thing to do? Well I needed to own my work. Take the feedback.

How to Speak Up — Even When You Don’t Want To | Sarah Crawford-Bohl | TED · TED

18. I'd mentioned things that needed to be fixed. I was able to let him know I was embarrassed

How to Speak Up — Even When You Don’t Want To | Sarah Crawford-Bohl | TED · TED

But second, those same knowledge gaps also prevent them from catching their errors. In other words, poor performers lack the very expertise needed to recognize how badly they're doing.

Why incompetent people think they're amazing - David Dunning

The difficulty of the project lay in its technical requirements. We needed a helium balloon of over 6,000 cubic meters in order to raise a ladder

A Firework Ladder to the Sky — and the Magic of Explosive Art | Cai Guo-Qiang | TED · TED

I just didn't get it, and I needed to understand why. Now, I only later came to understand

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

We learned that one-off spikes are not enough. We needed a sustainable movement, not one that is susceptible to the fluctuating moods of a politician

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

or the hint of an economic downturn. And it needed to happen everywhere; otherwise, every individual government would have this built-in excuse mechanism

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

We could only think of one way. We needed to somehow turn that short-term excitement of people involved with the Make Poverty History campaign

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

I promised myself for a year I would keep quiet because I started learning more and more and I needed to learn more. So for a year I said I would keep quiet,

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

I had become a prisoner. I was a prisoner and I needed to escape. The prison that I was in was the fact that I did not drive

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

I didn’t know who I would be if I changed. But I know I needed to. change, because it would be the only way that I could be here today.

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

But that changed when I was 18. I decided that I needed Hebrew to get a job, and going to study Hebrew in that classroom

For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism? | Aziz Abu Sarah

Because of their access to resources and power, they have blocked systemic changes that are needed, promoting instead incremental policies and even climate denial.

How to Be an “Apocalyptic Optimist” | Dana R. Fisher | TED · TED