How native speakers pronounce “precious”

Almost everyone has repetitive negative thoughts, and life is too precious to take all the 6,000 thoughts we have a day, literally.

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

We escaped them only through massive chronological luck. That is a precious and totally unearned inheritance, and I think we have an obligation to pay that forward

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

"Tell me, what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Me, I intend to live passionately.

Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age | TED · TED

does not make what was wrong right. It only makes what was wrong precious. In January of this year,

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

So Japan's policy of not trading with the outside world led to shortages of precious resources, like wood and cotton. So a tradition of patchwork developed, known as "boro," meaning tattered rags,

Lessons From History for a Better Future | Roman Krznaric | TED · TED