How native speakers pronounce “past”

right it made an impression on me and since then for the past 33 years I looked in the mirror every morning and

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

Nobody has a clue, despite all the expertise that's been on parade for the past four days, what the world will look like in five years' time.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

All day long people rushed past him, even after he had forsaken his traditional saffron

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

And we we we have talked about this in the past even before TED.

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

We agreed not to dwell on our national and historical narrative -- there is no common ground to be found in the past. Instead, we focused on what you cannot afford to lose:

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

have been secretly working on a full science curriculum, and it uses all the tricks I’ve learned from the past 15 years on how to hide the vegetables.

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

we found that teens with sleep problems were 55% more likely to have used alcohol in the past month. In another study with over 30,000 high school students,

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

We have a lot of fun. But this past year after it was over, I noticed something. He was exhausted.

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

became my way of returning some of that visibility. I went to Bali this past year and finally spent some one-on-one time with that little girl

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

(Laughter) But it's only been in the past 100 or so years that we've started understanding the science of cannabis and its effects.

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

was illegal in most countries around the world until the late 1990s, so it's only been in the past 20 or so years -- since it's been legalized, at least for medicinal use,

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

but as I walked out of the courtroom afterwards, past those marble walls, past the portraits of people who didn't look like me,

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

past those marble walls, past the portraits of people who didn't look like me, I got a text on my phone,

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

They reflect back to us an image of ourselves, of our collective, digitized past. We talk about ourselves endlessly,

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

And practically, it's this that shaped me to the leader that I was for the past five years, a leader for peace,

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

to give that contribution for peace. These past five years have not just been years of leading my country defending democracy,

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

VOS: It hasn't been a good one, I have to say this, and especially if we're looking at the past couple of days after I finished my mandate, which I just finished.

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

Predictions are never facts. Facts belong to the past. Predictions are unverifiable, unfalsifiable.

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

Today in Afghanistan, girls are not allowed to attend school past sixth grade. It is a crime.

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

and there's little we can do to fix the problem. But there's a lot I have learned over the past few years, and I want to share with you

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

to ask for what you want. The formula is: past performance, plus future vision,

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

This formula has been field-tested by hundreds of women over the past five years to get promoted, make more money,

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

Let me show you how it works. Past performance is what you've already done that matters. Future vision is something that everyone in the room wants.

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

and you have someone who works for you, and a recruiter calls, maybe a past employee, a recruiter calls you,

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

who was living with me. And I walk right past them, right? Because paradox of people, I'm scared of them,

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

in order to achieve good blood sugar control over the past 30 years. You see, good blood sugar control requires maintaining a delicate balance

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

But first, I want you to make a little confession to me. In the past year, I want you to just raise your hand if you've experienced relatively little stress.

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

through dense forest, past former plantations. And one day,

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

during not one but two world wars, how he and his wife, who also lived past 100, raised six children in a small, homey kitchen

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

in and out of hospitals and clinics, just like she had done in years past, trying to seek relief but still coming up short.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

a typical HD video stream, this camera would have to start recording 3.8 billion years in the past to record this amount of data.

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

one about personal opinions, one about past autobiographical memories and one about future intentions.

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

and the task was "tell me about your past holidays," then I will tell the researcher about my previous holidays in Vietnam,

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

of what they lost they hold ceremonies to mourn the past they create rituals

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get through the woods out of the desert over the mountain around the past they find a way to get from where they

Desert

We needed a breakthrough. Over the past five years, 350 Australian scientists and engineers

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

that we could go faster in the future than what history has told us was the reality in the past. Even though human civilization is at stake.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

This could be why they've been consistently wrong in their predictions in the past. For example, ExxonMobil, in the year of the Paris Agreement,

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

by how quickly these costs have come down. University of Oxford studied 3,000 past projections, and the average predicted decline was 2.6 percent a year.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

it makes quite a difference. Here are all the past projections from the International Energy Agency of what solar energy was likely to do, their projections year by year.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

normalcy appears a glimmer of light the past no longer casts such a long shadow the future begins to come into view

Launch

help you tell a more effective life story one use past tense put some distance between who you are today and who you

Tell

start referring to those feelings as happening in the past when that happened I felt stuck now I'm beginning to feel unstuck

Tell

story is to allow us to place difficult experiences firmly in the past and take from them something beneficial

Tell

happening all around us, our defense sector was stuck in the past. The biggest defense contractors had stopped innovating

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

It's not fun and games, of course, because generative AI is being used to supercharge past threats and create entirely new ones.

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

it helps buy stuff which we also crave technology plays a part too in the past when you left work you are largely free

Work

Levels of loneliness and social isolation are through the roof. Levels of social isolation have increased dramatically over the past 20 years. And it's not just about suffering emotionally,

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

and talk to each other instead of scrolling our feeds. We're way past that point. I think that the only solution is to build the tech

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

as you want to reach the destination. A couple of weeks past, and you have not been doing much lately.

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | 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 needed to follow the lead of young people. You think about the past few years, how much our minds, our culture, schools, politics

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

Instead, there's this elaborate shuffling of bags and using your body to say that you need to get past, instead of using two words.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

I've been fortunate to be able to apply these lessons in multiple contexts over the past few years, during a time of massive environmental change,

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

we saw that nearly a third of the world's population reported giving at least some money to charity in the past month. Remarkably, in every major region of the world,

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

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

I had been working on a book about love stories for the past few years, so I had gotten used to writing about my own experiences

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

different people will call it AGI at different points. But we all agree it’s going to go way, way past that. You know, to whatever you want to call these systems

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

will the model let you be offended? And in the past, we've had much tighter guardrails on this. But I think part of model alignment

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

Max is 38, a founder who has lived happily with Allie for the past four years. And yet, he found himself in my office asking me,

The 6 Essential Ingredients of Loving Relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh | TED · TED

psychosexual therapist and social psychologist. In the past 20 years, I've helped more than thousands of people across the world

The 6 Essential Ingredients of Loving Relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh | TED · TED

collaborative allies Allied axis that we used to we used to know in years past that's right the United States is not becoming

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

CC: But I think one of the best measures of people’s behavior in the future is their behavior in the past. And this is actually how a lot of these systems work, right?

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

And this is actually how a lot of these systems work, right? And if you look at the behavior of OpenAI in the past, which is it illegally scraped data from numerous sources

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

put out freely for anyone on the internet to read. No matter how many more people read your past words, you don’t get any more payment,

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

And I had expected, I had hoped that when I made it past that, when I succeeded, when I went through that threshold, life would feel different.

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

And then it's really up to us. And like you, we won an Audacious Project award this past year. And now it's up to us to leverage the power of artificial intelligence

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

I'm no longer a part of your future. I start quickly becoming part of your past. But in that instant, I get to share your present.

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

including the one that has become the cornerstone of my own research. Over the past decade, I've been at the forefront of developing a revolutionary technology called CRISPR

CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think | Jennifer Doudna | TED · TED

these microbial communities. So why have microbiomes been difficult to control in the past? It turns out that microbiomes are very complex,

CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think | Jennifer Doudna | TED · TED

you have no idea how fulfilling and energizing that is. For the past three years, I've had the privilege of codesigning with my neighbors

"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

to uncover what all of these thousands of questions really are. I have spent the greater part of this past year living alongside an AI humanoid robot.

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

And the strength of that rivalry has persisted all this time. We're going to have to move past that if we want to get to reliable AI. To get to truthful systems at scale,

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

just as we could have with social media. And in the past, in the face of seemingly inevitable arms races,

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

often adversarial, rarely rooted in mutual understanding, speaking past each other if they speak at all. Sometimes, horizon two, the voice of the entrepreneur,

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

what they would recommend, who I should talk to, how had people handled this in the past. So one question to keep in mind as you're doing this first page is:

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

but your ambition and success. For the past decade, I've been photographing over thousands of people.

Why Body Language Is the Key to Self-Expression — and Hot Selfies | David Suh | TED · TED

is somewhere around 110 and 115. It's very hard to live past that. But there is serious research out there

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

But there is serious research out there that suggests that we can just blow past that boundary and live for decades longer, maybe even indefinitely.

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

here and around the world. I mean, just look at what we've lived through in the past year and a half. On average, white Americans lost one year of expected life in 2020,

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

I burned holes in my leg for a frog poison ceremony. It was supposed to purge my past. Instead, I think I purged everything I'd ever eaten in my entire life.

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

I realized I'd become so attached to an outcome for Embrace that I pushed past all my limits, and when the company failed, it shattered my sense of self.

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

(Laughter) The overachiever who had pushed me to work past exhaustion. I discovered the part they were protecting,

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

If she didn't know any better, she'd think that her student spent the past 20 minutes just staring at the screen. But if she presses undo a few times,

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

Jean Béliveau jumped at the opportunity. For the past three years, Béliveau had been walking from country to country, with the goal of circumnavigating the globe on foot.

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

taught me how media can be used as a way of preserving legacy, as a way of bringing past cultures into the present. Playing Tinker Bell gave me permission to reignite my imagination.

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

to how the musician Prince undefined masculinity for generations. And oftentimes these discoveries can jeopardize past ways of thinking. I like to call the change that emerges from blossomed curiosities rupture.

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

(Laughter) And if past is prologue, we will learn from these mistakes and create a future we imagine.

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

Here's another way to think about it. In the past, unlocking economic growth often came with huge downsides.

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

But that would actually get you oriented pretty fast, right? Because you literally couldn't get past "hello," if you didn't know which way you were going.

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

who would reach a stage in their lives, where they involuntarily give up everything that has happened to them in the past, just so they can say that they're modern

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

but not really in healthy cells. Now over the past few years, we have spent a lot of time basically mapping these cancer-emergent RNAs

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

And so don't assume that it's too late for you, even if you feel like you've not had good luck with this in the past. WPR: Well, Bob, we're getting some questions about you.

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

even in these perfect-looking places that seem to remind us of a past before humans, we're essentially looking at a humanized landscape.

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

and not just tropical forests. People have influenced ecosystems in the past, and they continue to influence them in the present,

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

Crater Lake in southern Oregon, which is my closest national park, is a beautiful example of a landscape that seems to be coming out of the past. But they're managing it carefully.

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

That we humans were a plague on our own planet. I've since spent the past 10 years lobbying decision makers across business, policy and civil society,

Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | TED · TED

because your bliss in the present would always be shadowed by the joy from the past. Nirvana, he said, is what you arrive at

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

and understanding what emotions really are has important consequences for all of us. I have studied emotions as a scientist for the past 25 years, and in my lab, we have probed human faces by measuring electrical signals

You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them | Lisa Feldman Barrett