How native speakers pronounce “scales”

and don't bother asking if that's Celsius or Fahrenheit, minus 40 is where the two scales meet -- it was very cold.

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going to sleep three hours after memorizing your formulas and one hour after practicing your scales would be the most ideal. So hopefully you can see now that skimping on sleep

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But it's how we fight, how we have better conflicts, that just may tip the scales, as we build a third horizon that we can genuinely be proud of.

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At this point, AIs will convincingly imitate humans at most tasks. And we'll feel this at the most intimate of scales. An AI organizing a community get-together for an elderly neighbor.

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A sympathetic expert helping you make sense of a difficult diagnosis. But we'll also feel it at the largest scales. Accelerating scientific discovery,

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because of some biological excuse: "Oh, we don't have magnets in our beaks or in our scales." No; if your language and your culture trains you to do it,

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by this thing we call the Standard Model, which is our current best description of nature at its smallest scales, and quite frankly,

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But drones change that by allowing us to gather data and plant the right mix of vegetation quickly, at enormous scales. And machine-learning analysis enables us to plan the planting

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then the whole colony might be lost. Multiple studies showed that the revolt tipped the scales in favor of abolition, leading to the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

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