How native speakers pronounce “obtain”

2 examples from real videos — listen, replay, loop.

1 / 2

Very few people in this room have ever worried about how they were going to obtain food or shelter or heat, or how they were going to bury a child who died of diarrhea

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

Example sentences

Very few people in this room have ever worried about how they were going to obtain food or shelter or heat, or how they were going to bury a child who died of diarrhea

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

So TED Member Nancy wants to know if you think it’s possible for an endemically unhappy person at some point in life to obtain happiness. RW: Yes. And thank you for asking that question.

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