How native speakers pronounce “pause”

If you tried to answer that, you felt something. You felt a gap, a pause between the question arriving and anything starting to form.

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There was no time for outside activities, no time for vacation, no time for pause. And as the pressure got greater,

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or not make, every word, every pause, every tone. There are no rewinds.

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So two months later, I'm a leading signatory of the "Pause" letter, where we and 30,000 other people asked the AI labs to wait six months

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There are, I think, all of the efforts hold on things, pause on things, delay on things, don't release certain capabilities.

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And I ask, "Are you respectable?" And there's a pause. I say, "Look, do you live by your own principles,

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