How native speakers pronounce “pretty”

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to schools and birthday parties to teach kids about wildlife. It's a pretty cool job. It was really awesome.

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

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to schools and birthday parties to teach kids about wildlife. It's a pretty cool job. It was really awesome.

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

Like, actual real money. And as a college student, that's pretty freakin' sweet. So I started streaming to about ten viewers at a time

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

that it would all work out okay it was pretty scary at the time but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

Who in their right mind wouldn't do that? Apparently that was pretty motivating, though, because over the course of a 21-hour-long live stream,

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

Renaissance and L and I have a wonderful family together I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

And my contention is, all kids have tremendous talents, and we squander them, pretty ruthlessly. So I want to talk about education,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

At the bottom are the arts. Everywhere on earth. And in pretty much every system, too, there's a hierarchy within the arts. Art and music are normally given a higher status in schools

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

how we operate all of this infrastructure. But I actually think infrastructure is a pretty good way to describe what the drones themselves are becoming.

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

without reading. And so, pretty much every day in every situation I find

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

and then restoration, to what looks pretty good as compared to where it started. (Applause)

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

It's hard to do all the things right. It's pretty easy to do the next right thing. And if you do that,

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

you do that and then do it again, suddenly, you're a pretty good person. And then if you do it in bad times,

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

The contrast between my beliefs about how that would go and how it actually went was pretty sizable. And there ... in that gap

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

Well, I'm not sure that's a good thing, actually -- Actually, I'm pretty sure it's a bad thing. And he was like, "Oh" --

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

Your bed has never felt so sweet. After one sleepless night, your body and brain bounce back pretty quickly. Which is a good thing since we can’t always control how much sleep we get.

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

and we're understanding more about its benefits. There's now pretty solid evidence that cannabinoids can help treat rare types of epilepsy,

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

who were extensively screened to have no other major health condition and to be pretty much taking no other medication. We really need more research,

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

And that's why I think it's really important for us to start this dialogue about gross stuff from a pretty early age, so we can let our kids know

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

who can and should be allowed to defy their odds. We're facing some pretty grim predictions from some of our most prominent prophets.

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

all with a net worth north of 200 billion dollars. Forbes tracks pretty much every billionaire in terms of how much they give to charity -- how much winds up,

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

MacKenzie Scott is giving away money faster, smarter, no-strings-attached than pretty much anyone in history. She's the 84th richest person in the world by net worth.

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

Today, the project is called OpenClaw. It's pretty much the fastest-growing open-source project. Its mascot is a lobster.

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

That's a deliberately ridiculous name, but I am actually pretty serious about using the word "love." Granted, it's a confusing term because we use it to apply to everything

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

to how we can actually frame that form of negative feedback. So I think a lot of us are actually pretty decent at the positive general feedback, right?

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

then there are a few little reactions that all of us can pretty much recognize. Some of us will come back,

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

five minutes before the real thing. Foreplay pretty much starts at the end of the previous orgasm. They also understand that an erotic space isn't about,

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

Erotic couples also understand that passion waxes and wanes. It's pretty much like the moon. It has intermittent eclipses.

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

about our most favorite topic, the weather. You could just say what they're expecting, which is, "Yeah, it's pretty cold." Or you can answer a bit more expansively.

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

An approval mindset isn't all bad. In fact, we've picked up some pretty useful skills in an approval mindset. In an approval mindset, we learn to set the bar high for what we want.

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

is I work with a lot of well-recognized brands on something that is a pretty consistent challenge day-to-day. And what that really comes down to is:

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

I was on a call the other day with a client. She is the head of HR for a pretty big company. It was she and I and one of her colleagues on the call.

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

It's not good enough to just hang a shingle, make a pretty sports bra, or make a new sneaker.

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

I was just like, "I don't think that's true. I'm pretty sure that uncomfortable feelings are caves with bats and rats and snakes and a river of poison.

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

you're not just getting better at stress, you're actually making a pretty profound statement. You're saying that you can trust yourself to handle life's challenges.

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

and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows. CA: Thank you so much, Kelly. It's pretty cool. (Applause)

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

He plays Minecraft and he's yelling at his friends. It seems like he's connecting pretty well. Is that useful? Is that helpful?

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

Which is -- you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And we were talking about this, and you know, Tom, for most of his life, he was pretty much the embodiment of the tormented contemporary modern artist,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

Eat healthier. It's a pretty simplistic approach to root cause analyses.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

they have to be doing. >> You said that pretty much everyone like there's this big change that now pretty

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

>> You said that pretty much everyone like there's this big change that now pretty much everyone should be lifting heavy.

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

and their owners think they use them to communicate some pretty impressive things. But do the dogs know what they're saying?

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

what's the date of the following Friday? It's like, pretty impressive for a horse. Unfortunately, Hans wasn't doing math,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

but he had learned to watch the people in the room who could do math, which, I mean, still pretty impressive for a horse. But this is an old picture,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

Though these scratch pad prediction tasks show above-chance accuracy, the underlying correlations are still pretty weak. And though neural networks are inspired by the brain,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

(Laughter) Admittedly, I found the video pretty funny and I liked it, which ended up giving me more urban-design incel-themed meme videos,

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

we get through with relative ease turns out we're pretty good at navigating change

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code, images, music, all of these are starting to look pretty good. Even video is getting interesting.

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

but actually in this case, the mob does a pretty good job. Usually, the finalist almost certainly almost all the time, really,

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

Could they, between two captions, one that won and the one that was pretty good, pick the right one?

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

But Korea just shows us a more concentrated and extreme example of the pretty privilege that exists everywhere. Look at fatphobia in the United States,

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

the solution to lookism and fatphobia isn't to make everyone interchangeably skinny and conventionally pretty. In fact, it's the opposite.

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

mainly through coral gardening. It's pretty simple. You take small pieces of coral,

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

they're generating at the right time to do that. And we're pretty sure that this is what businesses and homes in Pakistan are doing.

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

I think that's the fun part. Yeah, that's pretty crazy.

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

And I'm six months behind. Pretty good, right? Sounds pretty good.

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

Pretty good, right? Sounds pretty good. No.

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

and right now, eradicate all of these diseases? That's a pretty good goal. I'm aware of one nonprofit that's trying to identify,

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

fall into this trap. And there’s people who say things that sound pretty good, like, you should never allow a robot to pull the trigger.

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

and train on as much content as they can gather. They're often pretty secretive about what they do train on, but what's clear is that training on copyrighted work without a license

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

And this isn't just theoretical. Generative AI is still pretty new, but we're already seeing exactly the sort of effects you'd expect

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

Not something you would have expected from a person who pretty much created the AI companionship industry. So what's the alternative?

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

So what is that we should be doing then? Pretty soon we will have these AI agents that we'll be able to tell anything we want them to do for us,

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

They've just had a meeting to discuss a new industry report that seems to have some pretty important findings about consumer preferences for sustainable packaging.

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

does it matter that we cannot? To me, the answer is pretty obvious. When I began studying human-AI interaction 13 years ago,

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

and the cashier who rang these tomatoes up." And I thought it was going pretty well, this tradition. Then one day, my 10-year-old son said,

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

and I started to wake up in the middle of the night pretty consistently with these panics. A lot of folks wake up with to-do lists bouncing through their minds.