How native speakers pronounce “off”

I was born in 1998, so I will get that out of the way right off the bat. But I'll tell you guys how I got started.

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

the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path path and that will make all the

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

it can be really hard to see ourselves in such legends. It leaves us feeling like that work is just a far-off dream that only other people achieve.

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

that only other people achieve. But at Alveus, that dream doesn't feel so far off. For our viewers, Alveus is a dream that one of them achieved

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

stay hungry stay foolish it was their farewell message as they signed off stay hungry stay foolish and I have always

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

And there, you will see it. Grown men and women writhing uncontrollably, off the beat. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

It's thicker in women. Following off from Helen yesterday, this is probably why women are better at multitasking.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

maybe take a photo and then we're rushing off to bag the next masterpiece

Running

why else do so many of us bungee jump off Bridges or ride hair raising roller coasters even just watching Tom Cruise hit mach

Running

And if you're wondering, somebody actually did the experiment where they cut off the olfactory sense of the squirrels, and they could still find their nuts.

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

for 14 days he received no visitors apart from the assistants dropping off his meals

Slow Thinking

It's autonomously tracking that car. This is hands-off -- it’s a very powerful capability.

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

So this is the beginning of a crime spree. He's probably going to go off and steal a bunch more stuff, but the cops know exactly where he is,

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

And this concept of drone as first responder is taking off across the country. So it started with a few agencies.

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

and temptation to speed up are relentless from time to time you too will fall off the slow wagon and that's okay

Finish

and she dropped onto the couch in my office and kicked off her flats and told me she was there to talk about guy problems.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

are married or are living with or dating their future partner by 30. We know that the brain caps off its second and last growth spurt in your 20s

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

Everybody was running around and having fun, but then sometime around 30 it was like the music turned off and everybody started sitting down.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

One time I went on vacation, and by the time I got back, they'd called off their wedding. But why?

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

when I'm walking around. When I feel grateful, I write a note and send it off. When I need help, I’m less reluctant to ask for it.

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

and so we had some sense of how this might go. Nevertheless, this choice caught me off guard. I wasn't there at that moment.

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

I want to start off tonight with a two-step experiment. For step one,

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

that’s negative 320 degrees Fahrenheit. As you can see, it's violently boiling off into a gas, just like boiling water does on a hot stove,

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

that are turned on in cancer and tumor suppressor genes that are turned off to cause cancer. You might think that we learned about oncogenes

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

Now, TP53 is the most important tumor suppressor gene. It is the most frequently turned off tumor suppressor gene in almost every kind of cancer.

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

some people are sworn belly sleepers, while others can't nod off unless they're sprawled out on their backs. How we spend the night affects our bodies in several ways.

What’s the best position to sleep in? - Rachel Marie E. Salas

Like he literally just fell on his knees, brushed it off and looked at the Waymo kind of weird. Why isn't --

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

I flip on the light and physically shake the poor boy awake. because I know that, like ripping off a Band-Aid, it's better to get it over with quickly.

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

which can unfortunately also lead to poor choices. The final starts off well. It’s all multiple choice!

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

it became clear I was the one who could do it. I could do something I enjoyed and lift some weight off my parents. So we did it.

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

My dad withdrew his pension, the church and extended family gave us what they could, and we was off. And right away, it seemed to be the right decision.

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

As the years flew by, I didn’t just perform on stage -- I started performing off it, too. I began designing a character to survive my life.

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

It’s like a computer -- it works great so you never turn it off. You don’t even let it restart for updates,

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

April 2, 2025. The president dusts off a 1977 law and imposes tariffs on virtually every country on earth.

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

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, at least for AI as we know it today.

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

we’d be sacrificing our ability to control, to regulate them and perhaps even to turn them off and for no good reason at all. And this is one reason why even AI that merely seems to be conscious

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

then so is the prospect of uploading our own conscious minds and floating off to eternity in a silicon cloud of living, or at least existing forever

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

or emotional distress. And extreme sleep deprivation like jetlag can throw off your biological clock, wreaking havoc on your sleep schedule.

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

But they only work if we believe them. If Oedipus had laughed off the prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother,

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

but believe it or not, you might be better off closing the books, putting away the music, and going to sleep.

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

with a fifth of your body's circulatory blood being channeled to it as you drift off. And what goes on in your brain while you sleep

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

people were having fun with it, people tried to hack it. And when my eyes were like, falling off almost, I exited the process, and I went to bed.

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

sent me a trademark claim. I had to rename the whole thing while it was taking off. You know, they even tried to push me away from the lobster.

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

It was like, it's not even the same animal. And then they also cut off the model most of my users loved. You know, first the name,

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

Somebody mentions a statistic, a subagent can spin off and check it for you. A decision is made,

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

is at a record high. Married people, you're not off the hook. I’m going to get a little morbid for a moment

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

How do you feel when you interact with someone over and over again who's giving off these kinds of brittle smiles? These are typically the kinds of facial expressions

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

it’s all about perspective-taking. They're not like, "You do this, otherwise I'm going to be pissed off." They're like, "These are my needs. What are your needs?

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

I took a deep sigh of relief ... and I was laid off from that full time job 48 hours later.

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

"Hey, would you ever consider doing marketing consulting on the side?" By the time I was laid off, I had already formed my LLC. I had a whole invoicing system,

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

How do you think I spent those first few weeks after getting laid off? I'm not a phone person either,

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

to make connections to everyone in their constellation. One person even congratulated me for being laid off. Sometimes it is your community

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

because when you're vigilant, worried, anxious, and insecure, you can't lift your head to go and take off in space and be playful and safe and imaginative.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

And so I began to ask a different question. "I shut myself off when ..." began to be the question. "I turn off my desires when ..."

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

"I shut myself off when ..." began to be the question. "I turn off my desires when ..." Which is not the same question as,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

Which is not the same question as, "What turns me off is ..." and "You turn me off when ..." And people began to say, "I turn myself off when

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

"What turns me off is ..." and "You turn me off when ..." And people began to say, "I turn myself off when I feel dead inside, when I don't like my body,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

connection and separateness at the same time. They can go off in their imagination, off in their body, off in their playfulness,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

They can go off in their imagination, off in their body, off in their playfulness, all the while knowing that there's somebody when they come back.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

And audio could be a phone call, it could be video conferencing with the camera off. And what I found was that there was no difference

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

How am I going to prioritize my non-negotiable? What is the trade-off? A trade-off is typically something like rescheduling a social activity,

Let Your Ambition Light You Up — Not Burn You Out | Tarveen Forrester | TED · TED

What is the trade-off? A trade-off is typically something like rescheduling a social activity, canceling your golf lesson.

Let Your Ambition Light You Up — Not Burn You Out | Tarveen Forrester | TED · TED

but we can control how we react. So it's up to us to accept these trade-off moments, adapt and move forward.

Let Your Ambition Light You Up — Not Burn You Out | Tarveen Forrester | TED · TED

by attending community events and dropping cards off in her neighbors mailboxes, by planning trips to see family

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

when we went to see the doctor about a rib stress injury that was off to the side and he was doing a breast exam on all of us.

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

So I finished med school. I went off and studied biostatistics and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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

And as we were having the discussion, about 10 minutes in, she chimes in and says, "Wait, I'm going to hop off for a moment. I need to go change my top. I'll be back."

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

She returns to the call, and she's in a plain black shirt. She's taken her earrings off, makeup's gone. So I ask, like, "Why'd you change clothes?"

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

Now, any of those stats should convince each of us to get off our duff more, but if you're anything like me, it won't.

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

But just taking the example of a commute: you get out of your car or you get off the bus, and your shoulders are trying to be your earrings,

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

prompted me to ask myself some questions too, such as, when am I going to die and how can I put that day off? And as you will see, the answer is not what we expect.

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

And I think the pressure of that has been killing off our artists for the last 500 years. And, if this is true,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

those intricate ways in which our DNA is literally shaped, genes turned on and off based on the exposures to the environment,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

The cleaning crew would come once a month. The new moms group would drop off dinners. And my toddler would go to preschool.

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

be able to tackle these waves and be able to grab a can off the top shelf when I'm 70 years old.

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

when I'm 70 years old. >> Always start off with a warm up. Okay.

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

She had her coffee the next morning, and it was a little bit easier to get up off the floor. When we liberate ourselves from the idea that we are a good person or a bad person

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

fire hydrant. >> So, you want to do a plank off? >> Sure. All right.

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

(Cheers and applause) I moved all of my family's clothes into one closet off the laundry room, and now I just toss things into organized bins unfolded.

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

it seems clear that the body clock cannot be blind or isolated or shut off from the environment, but rather, it needs to receive information about the time of day

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

goes through challenging times when they feel off schedule of off track off kilter that the life they're living is

How to master life transitions with Bruce Feiler

and then gives businesses ideas for how to profit off the cottagecore aesthetic. Essentially, they're driving the mass production of identity-building labels

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

Essentially, they're driving the mass production of identity-building labels in order to profit off all of us. And while there’s nothing wrong with being on cottagecore TikTok,

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

Here's an example of a scaling law, where error falls off as a power law with the amount of training data. These scaling laws have captured the imagination of industry

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

disruptions they're the means by which we pull off the remarkable heroic everyday Act of reinvention

Master

beginning in which you unveil your fresh self where previous Scholars were off is that these phases don't necessarily happen in order

Superpower

A whole array of beauty filters had automatically worked me over, and I could not turn them off. There was so much going on here: skin smoothing, skin lightening,

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

Look at fatphobia in the United States, helping drive off-the-charts, off-label use of Ozempic, not for diabetes, but for weight loss.

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

the biological process of molting is how animals routinely cast off feathers and skin they take those steps because they're

Shed

they can't achieve their new state without first casting off the remnants of their Old State humans undergo a

Shed

it's a narrative event that involves casting off certain familiar parts of your story in order to make room for new ones

Shed

for any disease where they believe the benefit outweighs the risk, through something called off-label prescribing, and off-label prescribing is actually very common.

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

through something called off-label prescribing, and off-label prescribing is actually very common. In fact, one in four prescriptions written every single day in the US is off-label.

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

and off-label prescribing is actually very common. In fact, one in four prescriptions written every single day in the US is off-label. So I began to study my own blood in the lab

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

was turned into overdrive, and that a decades-old transplant drug might be able to turn it off. It had never been used before for my disease,

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

So if you've ever received a drug that was repurposed for your disease, received a drug off-label, tell us about it. Go to everycure.org/ideas.

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

even when you mess up it sounds beautiful an army Sergeant got his face shot off by the Taliban

Create

It's probably just under 600 gigawatts. But I have to take you off on a diversion now to complain about how hard my job is.

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

between who you are today and who you were when your story veered off course instead of constantly talking about

Tell

which you can't control. Recursive self-improvement is where the computer is off learning, and you don't know what it's learning.

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