How native speakers pronounce “play”

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So I could cook, or I could sing, or I could play video games. And if people enjoyed watching it, they would send me tips.

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

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So I could cook, or I could sing, or I could play video games. And if people enjoyed watching it, they would send me tips.

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

and about the importance of conserving their rainforest habitats, too. They also have a little iPad to play games on now. It's very, very cute.

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

in terms of the future. No idea how this may play out. I have an interest in education.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

If we're being strict about it, wherever he went, he was four that year. He was in the Nativity play. Do you remember the story? (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

culture I think several things are a play here for one the modern workplace pushes us

Running

♪ Inside we both know what's been going ♪ ♪ We know the game and we're gonna play it ♪ ♪ And if you ask me how I'm feeling ♪

Never Gonna Give You Up — Rick Astley · Rick Astley

If kids can get to the internet, they will play video games and watch short videos, watch YouTube

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

when we have to remove the knee with the cancer. He can then wear a prosthetic and run and jump and play. This opportunity was available to him

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

I also have a daughter, but we kind of split up into two cars. But if we could play the video. (Video) Yeah, yeah. Start the ride.

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

I enjoyed it when they walked me over to the chair, and they would play with my hair more and talk to me about different hairstyles and haircuts I could get.

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

Or they’d braid each other’s hair. Or they’d play that game where you just lightly with your finger draw letters on each other’s backs

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

He won a Nobel Prize for his work. So go out there and pick up beetles and play in dirt and ask questions. And own your fascination with gross stuff and don't be ashamed of it,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

I built this sandbox, this sandcastle, for me, and I made it open-source so other people could play with it and other people could raise their imagination.

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

so that we sort of begin to become who we fully are. WPR: It's just so interesting how much vulnerability and shame play into this. And in a way, it seems like on the one hand,

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

WPR: So, so much of it has to do with the way we just think about the role friendships play in our lives. We have lots of questions that are coming in

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

and I won't know how to leave you in order to go play, in order to go experience pleasure, in order to discover, to enter inside myself.

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

and feeling really depleted from too much work. But in fact, there's so many other factors that can play a role, and an important one was community and connection.

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

But we know that the environments in which we live, learn, work and play affect our ability to engage in healthful behaviors.

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

instead of playing to win, we play not to lose. On this side of the gap,

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

when your mindset muscles start saying "This is hard." But if you want to play to win and not just not to lose,

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

And you can too, with three stress resets to reclaim your resilience. One: learn to play with your thoughts. Let's say you just experienced rejection.

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

or singing it to your favorite upbeat tune. It sounds silly, but when you play with your unhelpful thoughts, you loosen their grip.

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

Putting time on the calendar to learn a new language, putting your phone in airplane mode while you play with your kids so that work doesn't expand like a gas and fill all of your unoccupied space.

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

who couldn't care less about what you do for work. For example, I love to play pickup basketball, and one of the benefits of my weekly game is that the people I play with

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

For example, I love to play pickup basketball, and one of the benefits of my weekly game is that the people I play with don't care how many words I've written or how many books I've sold.

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

Do you talk to the woman who walks by your house every day with her dog? Do you play bridge or poker, have a book club? Those interactions are one of the strongest predictors

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

are four times more likely to survive their disease than loners are. Why men who've had a stroke who meet regularly to play poker or to have coffee

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

or to have coffee or to play old-timer's hockey -- I'm Canadian, after all --

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

and where we work, where we eat, sleep, learn and play, where we spend the majority of our lives.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

who know that health does begin where we live and work and play, but beyond that awareness, is able to mobilize

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

from other sectors, lawyers, whoever is willing to play ball, let's bring in to create a solution that makes sense,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

lifetime skill that no one is teaching us how to play that brings us to the third and final lesson

Lifequakes

Improv is so interesting and fun because actors play it out on stage without a plan, improvising what happens next.

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

it can be the setting, the stage, the world for the content to play in, the background stories of the characters and their situation.

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

And here's the cartoon I did then, and it says, "No, I don't want to play chess. I just want you to reheat the lasagna."

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

What is it? Women have had to play to the male gaze forever, you know what that is. But the technological gaze describes an algorithmically driven perspective

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

her job and changing her political views she taught herself to play ukulele it's a great instrument to get you

Create

A solution that lifts up nontraditional leaders to play a key role in creating safety in their own respective communities. You see,

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

And I had no idea. You know, I tried to kind of play along, but he said, "No, what are you doing?"

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

I walk fast and talk fast I play Fast sports like hockey and squash I thrive on the energy of big

Slow

there was time to bake or play a game together now some families are looking for ways

Family

then spending the rest of your time on play romance culture travel learning how would that feel

Work

was actually borrowed from a 1937 blues song by T-Bone Fletcher, which I'm going to play you a clip of. (Audio) There’s a starman waiting in the sky

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

for a song that I was working on. So I'll play you a clip of that. So this is my singing through my coworkers voice,

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

Much like it would have been hard for somebody like John Philip Sousa to have imagined this final monstrosity I'm going to play for you. This is a song that, when my wife first heard it, she said,

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

of my life I play once or twice a week and nothing lifts my spirits more than

Leisure

highlight reel goal you may not play hockey but I'm sure there is some form of leisure that

Leisure

Maybe you played Mad Libs in middle school. Maybe you still play Mad Libs. It’s that fun, fill-in-the-blank word game.

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

all the skills we would need to know to survive without him. And so while other kids were having play dates after school and riding their bikes,

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

And so many people are leaving our creativity on the sideline, discarding it as just play. It is so powerful to pick up

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

We've been taught that creativity is a selfish endeavor, that when we go and play the piano or we go and do our YouTube creation,

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

illegal immigration just as we've seen play out across all of Europe over the last decade you're seeing play out in

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

play out across all of Europe over the last decade you're seeing play out in the United States now I'm not saying

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

else trying to hope they don't have to play sides you know and just on defense everyone playing defense okay let's talk

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

do right by the next generation, wanting to help play a positive role in this. And how we eat gives us a shot every

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

CA: So I think probably the purpose of this conversation now is for me to gently try and play devil's advocate. TED is obviously -- we're trying to be open tent.

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

if you want meaning. Play a supporting role in other people’s lives. That's number one.

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

what happens with this couple. BR: You want to play in it? You want to be the therapist? You want to be the one with the lie detector?

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

because I looked at older columns of mine where I had let my kids play in the courtyard without me.