How native speakers pronounce “rather”

And because I take small joys most seriously, they stack up to be rather tall. You see, if I saw "real" happiness as the big headline news events,

Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED · TED

we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out of it. So why is this?

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

He said, "I'll never find another girl like Sarah." And we were rather pleased about that, frankly -- (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Why not? I think this is rather important. I think math is very important, but so is dance.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Another form of life. But they're rather curious. And I say this out of affection for them:

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

it so hard that they chose to self-administer Electric shocks rather than just sit and think

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If these things are lost or stolen, you can facilitate replacement. Now these are some rather obvious things. Remember, when you're under stress, the brain releases cortisol.

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

I've pulled this number out of the air for shock value, but in fact it's rather typical, this number needed to treat. For the most widely performed surgery on men over the age of 50,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

who and what you want rather than just making it work or killing time with whoever happens to be choosing you.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

clear scientific evidence that digital tools impair, rather than enhance, student learning.

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

and a pathway to regional integration, rather than isolation. Once you find that common ground,

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

We lean back and type to each other rather than leaning in and talking to each other. Once talking, we stick to shallow talk, to small talk, rather than going deeper.

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

rather than leaning in and talking to each other. Once talking, we stick to shallow talk, to small talk, rather than going deeper. We feel grateful but don’t express it.

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

or to try to connect with a person sitting next to them -- rather than just imagine it, to actually do it -- we found exactly the opposite results.

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

"terminal." Silence can also be rather uncomfortable. Where the blanks are in medicine

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

AlphaFold predicts the structure of proteins rather than words and sentences, but under the hood, it's not much different from Claude or GPT,

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

And this is the myth that the brain is a computer that just happens to be made of meat rather than metal. Now consciousness in this story is a special algorithm,

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

such as the facts and concepts you need to remember for that test, rather than procedural memory, such as the finger movements you need to master for that recital.

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

This is especially the case in Scandinavia. I say, rather than treating the rise of singles as a bug, let's treat it as a feature.

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

more so than their non-single counterparts. So what should we tell single people rather than "get married?" Let's start by expanding the concept of significant other.

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

like, my friend, maybe they're just, like, hungry or something, rather than that they hate me, right? Those people that go straight to "maybe they don't like me,"

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

Why do we not listen to each other? Number one, we'd rather talk. When I'm talking, I'm in control.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

to see it as just part of our personalities rather than antithetical to the personality that we want to have. And we are able to sort of relinquish all of the energies

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

to take all the 6,000 thoughts we have a day, literally. So rather than letting your spam sap your brainpower, try seeing it like you'd see blimps in the sky

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

allows boys to feel good about who they are rather than feeling uncomfortable for trying to be someone they're not. It’s different than simply being praised or rewarded for achievements

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

It’s different than simply being praised or rewarded for achievements but rather rooted in a deep sense of self. And so what my school does is move away from either-or thinking.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

I love this image. Rather than a physical sanctuary, like a synagogue, Shabbat is a time sanctuary.

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

you start to hear people referring to this or that artist as being a genius, rather than having a genius. And I got to tell you, I think that was a huge error.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

But what I mean is, you probably wouldn't find me in a museum. Rather, if you were looking for me, you'd probably have to go to the mountains,

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

cannot be blind or isolated or shut off from the environment, but rather, it needs to receive information about the time of day from the environment

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

where adding a few more data points could reduce your error, rather than ten-xing the amount of data. So what theory did we use to get this result?

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

We spend our own money building defense products that work, rather than asking taxpayers to foot the bill. The result is that we move much faster and at lower cost

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

Very far from my comfort zone. I'd rather be in my lab with my collaborators, working on these scientific challenges.

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

to be in this room together or listening on the internet, rather than huddled by a smoky fire knitting stockings to sell. The mill owners couldn't have imagined what was coming,

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

to help me prepare this talk faster. Rather, I use AI as a tool for thought. And by the end of this talk,

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

As she writes, she sees provocations that, rather than autocompleting her ideas, they raise alternatives,

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

I'll leave you with this thought. What would you rather have? A tool that thinks for you,

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

that many Danes are so averse to talking to strangers, that they would rather miss their stop on the bus than say "excuse me" to someone that they need to get around.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

It came up with this. I thought this was actually rather profound. What do you think?

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

and is content with a yes or no answer. So rather than that question, I would propose we ask some more difficult questions,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

and we can learn the collective value preference of what everybody wants, rather than have a bunch of people who are, like, blessed by society to sit in a room and make these decisions,

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

can talk to us, and if we say, hey, I want thing X, you know, rather than like, the crowds spin that up, AI can say, hey, totally understand that's what you want.

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

Conflict avoiders who just agree to disagree and would rather wash the dishes than argue a point. I'm a conflict avoider.

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

to make things better, rather than what you resent. Now here's an example of harsh versus softened startup.

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

And so we learn that conflict really mostly needs to be managed rather than solved. Julie: In our lab, the couples who came back year after year

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

Why? Well, my take on it is that we would rather see the process of romantic love bring the one to us

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

the process of romantic love bring the one to us rather than slowing down and evaluating in an informed way whether or not they're a good match for us.

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

leaves many of us feeling that arranged marriages are old and irrelevant. At least I did until I came across some rather compelling research. Now I'm going to suggest

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

Would you rather um just play with them old-fashioned way, you know, outside, no

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

out what to do, have fun that way, or would you rather be in an organized activity, you know, like soccer or

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

travel baseball or, you know, piano, recital, ballet, or would you rather um be online with them playing games, you

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

with young boys who would much rather speak to an AI than speak to their parents.

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

and memory and talent, rather than doing that, we need to come together and create what some people call the CERN of AI.

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

And then whatever comes out of it, rather than hoarding it for one company or one country to do it and share it with the world,

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

but in a way to make things more efficient. And rather than saying, I'm going to lay off 30 percent of my staff,

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

I much prefer to stretch my arms like Nüt until I become the sky. I'd rather stretch my tongue with truth, our bridge to cross when we look one another in the eye.

"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

We're enslaved, yet think of our shackles as gifts. Rather than resist our masters, we let them widen our rifts, like mindless, material junkies,

"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

taking good notes. So I thought rather than get up and give any type of recipe for success or highlight reel,

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

(Laughter) Rather than that, let me give you a quick primer on how you might go about taming your advice monster.

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

when there's not really an answer, or it might be your fault, or it might remind you of something you'd rather forget. Or because people are so suggestible

To Love Is to Be Brave | Kelly Corrigan | TED · TED

No longer the coach or the minister, but rather one of the afflicted. But these gritty endurance types I've been admiring

To Love Is to Be Brave | Kelly Corrigan | TED · TED

not because people started having more babies, but rather because people stopped dying and the generations stacked up. And we have problems like climate change

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

Instead of showing the progress that she made, she'd rather show nothing at all. Perfection or bust.

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

but I realized that made it so much easier to pick apart every potential decision rather than take action. Now while I can't speak for everyone's experiences,

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

yes, nudging up telomerase does decrease the risks of some diseases, but it also increases the risks of certain and rather nasty cancers. So even if you could buy that Costco-sized bottle of telomerase,

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

and because, while I think it's kind of funny that right now, you know, many of us may be thinking, "Well, I'd rather be like pond scum," ... (Laughter)

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

because I thought the task at hand was to merely alter these systems at play rather than to imagine entirely new ways of being. Because the results of curiosity are immeasurable.

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

Now contrast this with our liquid network solution, which consists of only 19 neurons rather than tens of thousands. And look at its attention map.

How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World | Daniela Rus | TED · TED

about technology and about ourselves. We need human guiding hands over AI sooner rather than later. After all, we remain responsible for this planet

How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World | Daniela Rus | TED · TED

when teachers or parents are eager to hear just correct answers and reject mistakes rather than welcome and examine them to learn from them,

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

or when we look for narrow responses rather than encourage more exploratory thinking that we can all learn from.

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

and counts towards a final grade, rather than being used for practice, mistakes, feedback and revision, we send the message that school is a performance zone.

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

to an avatar to wear inside a game. Digital fashion is made of pixels rather than threads, and it's still a relatively new sector of the virtual goods industry.

What’s the Point of Digital Fashion? | Karinna Grant | TED · TED

about how to use their feelings rather than kind of, be buffeted by their feelings and ruled by their feelings.

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

is a non-native invasive weed that he should throw away as trash. I think I would much rather learn from this boy that no matter where this plant comes from,

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

there is this huge distinction that people make between action and inaction? They would rather not act and see something go wrong than take the risk of acting.

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

not "I am here but I have cancer," but rather, "I have cancer and I am here." When we're ashamed, we can't tell our stories,

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

something internal to them, something internal and controllable rather than to some external cause.

Why Venting Doesn’t Help You Deal with Anger | Jennifer Parlamis | TED · TED

talk about anger as not something that happens to us but rather something that we construct in our brain when we assign

Why Venting Doesn’t Help You Deal with Anger | Jennifer Parlamis | TED · TED

a global leader in organizational performance and leadership, tells us people would rather quit their jobs than address a challenging situation.

How to Speak Up — Even When You Don’t Want To | Sarah Crawford-Bohl | TED · TED

which is "to behave as though attracted or trying to attract someone, but for amusement rather than with serious intent." Basically, to waste someone's time and toy with their emotions.

How to Unlock Your Flirting Superpowers | Francesca Hogi | TED · TED

It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar. So what if before my Mexican trip,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

of people who thrive despite the government, rather than because of it. I teach writing workshops in Lagos every summer,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

mushrooms, flowers -- basically, anything that is foraged rather than cultivated. In indigenous India, this shame is omnipresent.

What foods did your ancestors love? Aparna Pallavi

At a recent Nobel Prize event, I said, "Using explosions to create beauty rather than warfare and violence provides a sliver of hope for our shared human future."

A Firework Ladder to the Sky — and the Magic of Explosive Art | Cai Guo-Qiang | TED · TED

once talked about conspiracy theories of society. Rather than events being random or unlinked, believers develop a narrative in which all of history

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED

that we update our beliefs about the world rather than just double down on them. The point of evidence is to get us closer to the truth,

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED

when someone’s trying to defend their position rather than actually discover the reality. One of the most popular conspiracy theories currently

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED

History can help us navigate our way through the turbulence, acting as a counselor rather than as a clairvoyant. But, you know, with my background as a political scientist,

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

Because from what I’ve seen, it just might be. If our civilization is going to bend rather than break as we face the turbulence of the coming decades,

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

Because so much more is possible when we already know one another. Rather than parachuting in strangers during times of crisis. As unfair as it may seem, the future is up to us.

How to Be an “Apocalyptic Optimist” | Dana R. Fisher | TED · TED